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Kimberley diamond rush

Rush of diggers to the diamond hills at De Beers farm and Kimberley, from 1871.

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1871 –

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  • Kimberley Scholarship & press 12
  • Cecil Rhodes arrived in the diggings and sold goods and services to miners Scholarship & press 3
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  1. 1871 – Kimberley diamond rush
Proof 3 sources
  1. Our History & Heritage Since 1888, De Beers Group. Self-published
    Following a period of diamond prospecting in the Vaal River area of South Africa, the De Beers mine is discovered in May 1871 and the Kimberley mine in July 1871.
  2. The Diamond Mines of South Africa: Some Account of Their Rise and Development, Gardner F. Williams, general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines (scan on Internet Archive), 1902. Scholarship & press
    the “ New Rush ” was rechristened Kimberley
  3. Why a Diamond Means Forever: The Creation of the Diamond Engagement Ring Tradition in the United States, 1939-1996, Jennifer Lynn Pequignot, doctoral dissertation, Auburn University (drawing on the N. W. Ayer records at the Smithsonian), 2019. Scholarship & press
    Rhodes recognized an opportunity to make money providing goods and services to the more than fifty thousand miners encamped at Kimberley.
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