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2. Big Hole - Wikipedia

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   From mid-July 1871 [3] to 1914 up to 50,000 miners dug the hole with picks and shovels, [4] yielding 2,720 kilograms (6,000 lb; 13,600,000 carats) of diamonds. The Big Hole has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and is 463 metres (1,519 ft) wide. It was excavated to a depth of 240 metres (790 ft), but then partially infilled with debris ...

3. Jagersfontein Mine - Wikipedia

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   The sixth-largest diamond in the world, the Jubilee, found at the Jagersfontein Mine. Jagersfontein Mine / ˌjeɪɡərzˈfɒnteɪn / was an open-pit mine in South Africa, located close to the town of Jagersfontein and about 110 kilometres (68 miles) south-west of Bloemfontein. [1][2] Since it was first established, [3][4] two of the ten biggest ...

4. Kimberlite - Wikipedia

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   It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an 83.5-carat (16.70 g) diamond called the Star of South Africa in 1869 spawned a diamond rush and led to the excavation of the open-pit mine called the Big Hole. Previously, the term kimberlite has been applied to olivine lamproites as Kimberlite II, however this ...

5. Mineral Revolution - Wikipedia

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   The Big Hole, Kimberley. The Mineral Revolution began with the discovery of diamonds at the town of Kimberley in 1867. The discovery of diamonds led to a rush of prospectors descending on the town, whose population skyrocketed as increasing numbers of prospectors arrived to seek their fortune.

6. Kimberley, Northern Cape - Wikipedia

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   Kimberlite is a diamond-bearing blue ground that sits below a yellow colored soil. [4]: 34 The largest, The Kimberley mine or "Big Hole" covering 170,000 square metres (42 acres), reached a depth of 240 metres (790 ft) and yielded three tons of diamonds.

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