diamond mining
Unearthing precious stones
Diamond mining is the extraction of diamonds from the earth, whether from underground deposits, open pits, or riverbeds where stones have accumulated.
The industry ranges from massive corporate operations to individual prospectors sifting alluvial sediments.
Diamond mining has devastated communities across central Africa.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for extracting something valuable from a larger mass of material.
- excavatorsMachines for digging earth
- open pit mineSurface-level ore extraction site
- Kimberley ProcessConflict diamond trade prevention
- conflict diamondsGems traded for weapons
- blood diamondsGems mined to fund warfare
diamonds · De Beers · crushers · carat weight · human rights advocacy · Kalahari · Angola · drill rigs · sluices · conveyor belts · rough diamonds · habitat destruction · mine tailings · synthetic diamonds · cutting · shaft · tunnel · alluvial
- African economysafari tourism, mobile banking, cocoa farming, oil production, cotton farming
- African miningDe Beers, Anglo American, Kimberley, blood diamonds, conflict minerals
- Colonial BrazilBrazil, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo
- Congo HistoryBelgian Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo River, atrocities
- GhanaAccra, Ashanti, Gold Coast, Western, Central
- Northern CapeKimberley, Sutherland, Kalahari, Douglas, Williston
diamond miningagriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
farming · reforestation · manufacturing · sustainable forestry · land reclamation
diamond miningland conservation
Protecting terrain from exploitation
ecological restoration · habitat preservation · rewilding · nature conservation