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Jagersfontein diamond mine

Jagersfontein diamond mine, South Africa, open pit, mining diamonds.

Why Jagersfontein diamond mine is famous

Free State open-pit diamond mine. Wikidata gives 1852 as the inception of the town. Mine dates, output and the 2022 tailings failure are not verified from an opened page.1,2

What kind of deposit

Kimberlite and lamproite pipe

Jagersfontein diamond mine today

Mining in South Africa

Where next

Mines

An example ofKimberley Big HoleThe Free State town dates from 1852. Kimberley's Big Hole was dug from 1871.1ExamplesCatocaCatoca makes over 80 per cent of Angola's diamonds. Jagersfontein is a Free State open pit.3

Deposit types

An example ofKimberlite and lamproite pipeJagersfontein diamond mine belongs to the kimberlite and lamproite pipe family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q6122519 (Jagersfontein Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Wikidata item Q2460233 (Jagersfontein town) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Angola (advance release) US Geological Survey
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: The Big Hole by Rudolph Botha, CC BY-SA 3.0; Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Kimberley, South Africa: the Kimberley mine and town. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0).