The Finsch Mine is an underground

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mine in the

Northern Cape The Northern Cape is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, part of the Kgalagadi T ...

(South Africa). Located near

Lime Acres Lime Acres is a town in Kgatelopele Local Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Lime Acres is a mining village, and there are rich limestone deposits in the area. It is home to both PPC Lime and Petra Diamonds, was named b ...

, 160 km northwest of

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, it was one of seven operations managed by

De Beers De Beers Group is an international corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. The company is active in open-pit, large-scale alluvial and c ...

Consolidated Mines (DBCM), formed in July 2004. Currently, it is owned by Petra Diamonds Pty Ltd. The Finsch mine is a traditional diamantiferous

kimberlite Kimberlite is an igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite. It is most commonly known to be the main host matrix for diamonds. It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an diamond called the Star of ...

pipe, extending around 17.9 ha. Reserves are sufficient for another 23 years. Underground development started in 1978 and the shaft was commissioned in 1982.Mining Technology description of Finsch mine
Retrieved October 19, 2019.

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