Place
Kimberley
City in South Africa where a diamond rush began in 1871.
Connections 1
involved in
- Kimberley diamond rush Scholarship & press 12
Proof 2 sources
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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.
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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
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