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Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton.
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In the late 19th century a massive diamond discovery in South Africa prompted a diamond rush. Businessman Cecil Rhodes bought as many diamond-mining claims as he could and his accumulation of properties eventually became De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited. De Beers maintained a hold on what was a relatively small industry at the time by ...
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S ince the middle of the nineteenth century, South Africa has been at the heart of the world's diamond industry. The country has produced some of the world's largest, most beautiful and most valuable diamonds, and enough of them to bring them into the hands of individuals and families searching for a symbol of eternity.
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Fast forward to the late 20th century, and South African diamonds are still sought after, with an estimated R16-billion worth of the stones sold locally and internationally per year. Diamond miners were memorialised in the Diggers Fountain, which you can find in Kimberley.
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Diamonds and confederation A chance find in 1867 had drawn several thousand fortune seekers to alluvial diamond diggings along the Orange, Vaal, and Harts rivers. Richer finds in "dry diggings" in 1870 led to a large-scale rush. By the end of 1871 nearly 50,000 people lived in a sprawling polyglot mining camp that was later named Kimberley.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A rare 19th century 55-carat diamond has gone on temporary view at New York's American Museum of Natural History. The Kimberley Diamond gets its name from the mine in South ...
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Toward the end of the 19th century, explorers found diamonds near South Africa's Orange River. This marked the beginning of the chain of events that helped turn South Africa into a mining juggernaut. Despite the danger associated with the work in this industry, it remains crucial to the nation in terms of employment and gross domestic product.
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gold and diamond mining in south africa in 19th century A story of South Africa: Mining, Migration,. 14 Apr 2014 ... Back in the mid-1970s when this writer first came to South Africa to work, one of the things that seemed mandatory to do was to visit some of the country's famous - or infamous - diamond and gold mines.
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Centre for gold and diamond making was an African colony of the Britishers currently known as Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia. These two countries that time were under control of the British Government as colony. The gold and diamond companies were controlled by Britisher. The miners were people from India, South Asia and Africa.
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1,797 Diamond Mining Premium High Res Photos Browse 1,797 diamond mining stock photos and images available, or search for africa diamond mining or diamond mining south africa to find more great stock photos and pictures. of 30 NEXT
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( Image courtesy of De Beers Consolidated Mines) Anglo American's (LON:AAL) De Beers ended Tuesday more than 125 years of diamond mining history in South Africa by selling its last remaining...
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Two events near the end of the 19th century helped change the role of diamonds for the next century. ... richness in South Africa changed diamond from a rare gem to one potentially available to ...
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One of the major producers of diamonds in South Africa was the Premier Mine. It was established after the discovery of the Cullinan Diamond Pipe near Pretoria in 1902 and has produced some of the world's largest and most famous diamonds, including the Cullinan in 1905 (a 3106.75 carat diamond named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the ...
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Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in South Africa, c. 1890-1904 Published in Cornish History Introduction The economy and society of southern Africa was greatly altered by two developments in the last third of the nineteenth century. South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid
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Diamond mine, South Africa, 19th century. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)Image provided by Getty Images.
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By the mid nineteenth century, South Africa was not a unified state, but was divided between provinces of the British Empire, ... At Kimberley, the diamond mines fell under the monopoly of De Beers, while at the Rand orefields, land was bought up by Wernher, Breit & Eckstein, Consolidated Gold Mines Inc., and a number of smaller companies.
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In fact, it is De Beers' best friend. The diamond mining monopoly was founded by arch-colonialist Cecil Rhodes in 1888 and has maintained a virtual monopoly on mining the precious stones into the 21st century. It dominates mining in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, where the world's largest and most productive mines are located. In each ...
Get priceated by the diamond'and later the gold mines provided. to quote Maguba ne, a "poisonous nourishment" that nurtured the South African economy into the "deformed' monster 'that i,t is today.,,5 'Thiscpmment must be seen in the light of Magubane's view that society evolves from the eco nomic relations at its base.
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Jewelry exports are projected to hit $20 billion next year. India spends $10 per carat on the polishing and cutting of diamonds, against China's $17 and South Africa's $40 to $60. India wants to ...
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19th century - kimberley diamond mine - south africa diamond mining stock illustrations Picture taken on April 19, 2016 in Alldays, shows a view of the Venetia Diamond mine of Mining giant De Beers. - The Venetia Diamond Mine is South...
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Diamonds were initially identified in 1867 in an area adjoining the confluence of the Vaal and the Orange rivers, just north of the Cape Colony, although it was not until 1869 to 1870 that finds were sufficient to attract a "rush" of several thousand fortune hunters.
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In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton. Suddenly, the market was deluged with diamonds.
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In the ten years between 1890 and 1900 there was such an influx of Cornish miners that the mining camps resounded with their names - Tre, Pol & Pen (from the rhyming couplet "By Tre, Pol and Pen, shall ye know all Cornishmen"), Tre Pol & Pen are prefixes of Cornish surnames, e.g. Squire Trelawney, Captain Ross Poldark and Dolly Pentreath.
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The discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa changed the course of the country's history dramatically ... the gold reef on the Witwatersrand was too deep for individual digging. Mining companies gave employment to foreigners as well as to locals, as more and more people streamed into the area. ... 19th century diamond diggers bar at the ...
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half of the nineteenth century the discovery of diamonds and gold, coupled with the accompanying industrialisation, lured thousands of migrant labourers from the southern African region to the mining and industrial centres of South Africa. However, the discovery of diamonds and gold was not the beginning of labour migration in the region. By ...
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Kimberly, South Africa and its Diamond Industry. This article relates to The Fever Tree. ... Although the Apartheid laws would not be passed until the 1940s, some historians see their roots in the diamond mines of the late 19th century. As the digging went deeper, it became more difficult to keep the claims separate. This is illustrated by the ...
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Download Image of Premier Diamond Mine (in South Africa) - Frank G. Carpenter collection. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Title from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: South Africa. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).. Dated: 01.01.1890. Topics: diamond mining, south africa, photographic prints, knysna south africa ...
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The 616 is the largest uncut diamond in the world, its name is its weight: 616 carats. The most spectacular addition of the recent renovation is a cantilevered platform above the rim of the Big Hole which was completed in November 2006. The Platform is 30 by 30 Cape feet, which was the size of a 19th Century mining claim.
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diamond mine in south africa, wood engraving, published in 1893 - africa diamond mining stock illustrations. ... diamond fields of south africa, 19th century - africa diamond mining stock illustrations. Tiffany Yellow Diamond is one of the largest yellow diamonds ever discovered; its carat weight is 287.42 carats in the rough when discovered in ...
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The Diamond Field Region is a small tourism area in the Northern Cape, South Africa. It was the heart of the diamond rush in the mid to late 19th century. Kimberley is the administrative capital and main city of the Northern Cape Province. It all started when a young shepherd boy picked up a pebble that later became known as the "Eureka ...
Get priceUntil the mid-19th century to own a diamond was a great luxury. The mass distribution of the diamonds came only thanks to De Beers.. The English businessman Cecil Rhodes took part indirectly in the diamond rush in South Africa in mid '800, by renting water pumps to the pioneers who search diamonds.
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In the 19th century very rich diamond fields were found in South Africa. The De Beers company, founded in 1888 by Cecil Rhodes, became the world's largest producer and distributor. South Africa is still the major source of gem-quality diamonds. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) produces mostly industrial diamonds.
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De Beer's Venetia Mine is South Africa's largest producer of diamonds. The open-pit phase of the mine was launched in 1992 and is expected to run until between 2020 and 2023, with the Venetia Underground Project currently underway, which will extend the extraction of the deposit to around 2046.
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1869: The Star of South Africa, an 83.5 carat rough diamond, is discovered by a Griqua herdsman in Hopetown. It triggers the first diamond rush. 1870: In mid-1870 diamonds are found in the river diggings at Klip Drift (now Barkly West), triggering the second diamond rush. Later that year diamonds are found at the farm Bultfontein on the edge of ...
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RMF1KYA9 - 19th Century illustration of diamond mining in South Africa. The 1867 discovery of diamonds in the Cape Colony radically modified the world's supply of diamonds. The annual world diamond production increased more than tenfold in the following 10 years, a once extremely rare material became accessible to Western society with its growing wealth.
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The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines a century ago. Rob Turrell | Published in History Today Volume 36 Issue 5 May 1986. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant labour system. Unlike other South ...
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From their musty, forlorn two-story building on a residential street just outside the town center, the officers are tasked with policing illegal diamond buying - the acquisition of unregistered stones or by people without diamond licenses - as well as any trade in conflict diamonds. South Africa and Namibia, which it ruled until 1990, are ...
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