Jwaneng diamond mine
Location | |
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Location | Kalahari Desert |
Country | Botswana |
Coordinates | 24°31′23″S 24°42′07″E / 24.52306°S 24.70194°E |
Production | |
Products | Diamonds, 15.6 million carats in 2006 [1] |
History | |
Opened | 1982 |
Owner | |
Company | Debswana |
The Jwaneng diamond mine is the richest
Jwaneng is an
Jwaneng employs over 2,100 people. The mine also owns and operates a local
The
At the center of the diamond mine, a series of concentric circles cut deeper and deeper into the ground. Surrounding the pit is a network of roads and structures related to the mining operation.
The settlement southeast of the mine contrasts with the arid landscape as much as the mine does. Here, tiny dots of green hint at trees and grassy parks. The pale beige rectangles around the perimeter of this image are probably crops or fallow fields.[5]
The Jwaneng mining lease includes the Jwana Game Park, which includes a field unit of Cheetah Conservation Botswana. The game park is also host to the globally threatened lappet-faced vulture.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Debswana Jwanneng operations Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Inside the world's richest diamond mine - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
- ISSN 2225-6253.
- ^ "The state of 2013 global rough diamond supply". Resource Investor. January 22, 2013. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- ^ New Images: Jwaneng Diamond Mine, Botswana. This article incorporates public domain text from this NASA webpage.
- Debswana Jwanneng operations. Primary source for article. (Accessed 1/28/11)