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Kimberley

Boom town, South Africa, founded 1873.

About Kimberley

City in the Northern Cape, South Africa.1

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Mines

Worked atKimberley Big HoleKimberley lies close to Kimberley Big Hole.1

Events

HereKimberley Big Hole stops workThe Big Hole is the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.2Led toKimberley diamond rushKimberley is part of this story: Kimberley diamond rush.1Led toDe Beers Consolidated Mines foundedKimberley is part of this story: De Beers Consolidated Mines founded.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q125905 (Kimberley)
  2. Work is stopped at the Kimberley mine (4 August 1914) South African History Online

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).