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Jwaneng mine

Jwaneng mine, Botswana. Producing, open pit, mining diamonds since 1982.

Why Jwaneng is famous

Debswana's Jwaneng, which De Beers calls the richest diamond mine in the world by value. Wikidata gives 1982 as its inception year. Jwaneng was offline for all of Q4 2025.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 1971Kimberlite pipes found at Jwaneng3

What kind of deposit

Kimberlite and lamproite pipe

Jwaneng today

Mining in Botswana

Where next

Events

Led toKimberlite pipes found at JwanengRead what happened near Jwaneng: Kimberlite pipes found at Jwaneng.1

Deposit types

An example ofKimberlite and lamproite pipeJwaneng belongs to the kimberlite and lamproite pipe family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Our mines page De Beers Group
  2. Jwaneng diamond mine Wikidata
  3. Report to Stakeholders 2014 (key milestones 1967 to 2014) Debswana Diamond Company
  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: Ore sorting by Tomra Sorting GmbH, 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); Kopermijn te Kolwezi in de provincie Shaba (Katanka), Mieremet, Rob / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).