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After the first diamond was found in April 1908 by August Stauch near Grasplatz station, a diamond rush was triggered in German South West Africa. [8] In September 1908, [9] the German government created the Sperrgebiet in its colony in order to make its South West African enterprise profitable, giving sole rights for mining to the Deutsche Diamantengesellschaft ("German Diamond Company").
Around 1910, at the time of the diamond rush in German South West Africa, diamonds in the Pomona area were so plentiful that they could be picked up from the ground with bare hands. Pomona boasted the richest diamond mine of its time, generating over 1,000,000 carats (200 kg) [ 1 ] between 1912 and 1914.
August Stauch (15 January 1878 – 6 May 1947) was a German prospector who discovered a diamond deposits near Lüderitz, in German South West Africa (now Namibia). August Stauch was the third of seven children of a railway worker's family in Ettenhausen, Thuringia.
Due to the Great Depression, diamond mining was not undertaken until 1935, a year later workers' houses were erected. [2] Oranjemund as a formal settlement was thus established in 1936. [ 3 ] Production of mainly gem-quality diamonds has remained approximately 2 million carats (400 kg) per year since inception of the mine, mainly through ...
In-game, it is a special type of weapon, and as the fuel for the rocket in the map SD_Doomsday in the Special Delivery game mode. In the bonus comics on the Team Fortress website, their role is fleshed out more; The Life-Extending machines used by The Administrator, Blutarch, Redmond, and Gray Mann are powered by Australium, and a large part of ...
Zacharias Lewala (fl. 1908) was a Namibian worker, considered to have started a diamond rush in the area of Lüderitz in the former colony of German South West Africa, now Namibia, with his discovery of a diamond on 14 April 1908.
The town started to decline during World War I when the diamond field slowly started to deplete. By the early 1920s, the area was in a severe decline. Hastening the town's demise was the discovery in 1928 of the richest diamond-bearing deposits ever known, on the beach terraces 270 kilometres (170 mi) south of Kolmanskop, near the Orange River.
Although diamonds on Earth are rare, extraterrestrial diamonds (diamonds formed outside of Earth) are very common. Diamonds so small that they contain only about 2000 carbon atoms are abundant in meteorites , and some of them formed in stars before the Solar System existed. [ 1 ]