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Kolmanskop mine

Kolmanskop mine, Namibia. Closed, mining diamonds.

Why Kolmanskop is famous

Namib desert diamond town. Wikidata gives inception 1908 and dissolution 1956 for the town, used here as the working period. Diamond output is not verified from an opened page.1

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Kolmanskop today

Mining in Namibia

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Located inKolmanskopKolmanskop sits at Kolmanskop.1Located inLuderitzKolmanskop is about 10 km from Luderitz.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q819123 (Kolmanskop) Wikidata (CC0)

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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