Diamond mines also operate on the middle stretch of the river.

* Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve in California, United States, preserving historic coal mines

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The brothers formed the Barnato Diamond Mining Company, and within ten years Barney had become a millionaire, primarily by buying worked-out diamond mines area and mining the abandoned blue ground heaps.

Viljoenskroon historically played a part in providing residential opportunities to the adjacent mining communities at Lace Diamond Mine and the Orkney gold mines.

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Many of the most famous and notable diamonds were mined from these early Indian mines, including the Koh-i-noor, the Regent Diamond, the Great Mogul ( all from the Kollur ); the Daria-i-Noor, the Orloff, the Dresden Green, and the Idol's Eye.

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The area is known for its coal and cinnabar mines, with approximately 14 % of Washington's coal coming from the Black Diamond vicinity.

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After his death, Carnelian remarks that Diamond had his purpose in creating a new a better world: his campaign of conquering all the mines destroyed the Habit class and uprooted the cruel and unjust system to allow for a new society where all were equal.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

* January 26 – The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.

For its first four decades in the National Museum of Natural History, the Hope Diamond lay in its necklace inside a glass-fronted safe as part of the gems and jewelry gallery, except for a few brief excursions: a 1962 exhibition to the Louvre ; the 1965 Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa ; and two visits back to Harry Winston's premises in New York City, once in 1984, and once for a 50th anniversary celebration in 1996.

* Eureka Diamond, the first diamond found in South Africa

In 1867, the first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found near Hopetown on the Orange River.

The largest polished gem from the stone is named Cullinan I or the Great Star of Africa, and at was the largest polished diamond in the world until the 1985 discovery of the Golden Jubilee Diamond,, also from the Premier Mine.

The Cullinan diamond was found by Thomas Evan Powell, a miner who brought it to the surface and gave it to Frederick Wells, surface manager of the Premier Diamond Mining Company in Cullinan, South Africa on January 26, 1905.

* Queen's South Africa Medal, 5 clasps ( Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Driefontein, Diamond Hill, Belfast )

Some authors, like Jared Diamond, have postulated that this East-West axis is the main reason why plant and animal domestication spread so quickly from the Fertile Crescent to the rest of Eurasia and North Africa, while it did not reach through the North-South axis of Africa to reach the Mediterranean climates of South Africa, where temperate crops were successfully imported by ships in the last 500 years.

The first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found at Hopetown.

Hopetown was a quiet farming area until several large diamonds, most notable the Eureka Diamond and the Star of South Africa, were discovered there between 1867 and 1869.

In August 2010, another key draftsman of the KP and Africa ’ s highest-ranking diamond official, African Diamond Council ( ADC ) and ADPA chairman Dr. André A. Jackson demoralized KP supporters after persuading African diamond producing nations to renounce their support for scheme.

West Africa, for the Diamond Corporation Limited ; in 1966 transferred to Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company Limited, starting first in Flin Flon, Manitoba, and on to exploration projects in Ontario and Quebec ; joined Mattagami Lake Mines as a Senior Exploration Geologist in 1970 ; in 1972 became Senior Project Geologist in charge of all explorations in western Canada ; opened the Western Exploration Office for Mattagami Lake Mines in Edmonton, 1975 ; became an independent geological consultant in 1976, working briefly in 1977 for Alberta Environment ; in 1978 started consulting in the oil-patch ; sought the Liberal nomination in the federal riding of Elk Island in April, 1993.

* The Emerald Shellback or Royal Diamond Shellback for sailors who cross at 0 degrees off the coast of West Africa ( where the Equator crosses the Prime Meridian )

The reference work The Bond Files by Andy Lane and Paul Simpson indicates that it was based upon a story Jenkins claimed he and Fleming had worked on around 1957, and that the storyline was set in South Africa and dealt with diamond smugglers and a spy ring and bore some resemblance to Fleming's Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever as well as his non-Bond work, The Diamond Smugglers.

His most recent film role was his role as the mercenary, Colonel Coetzee, in the 2006 film Blood Diamond which was partially filmed in South Africa.

Specifically, Bush worked on behalf of the Diamond Empowerment Fund, visiting Botswana and South Africa and raising money for education there.

The Ocean Dream originated in Central Africa, and is currently owned by the Cora Diamond Corporation.

There was a special room designed underground in the De Beers Diamond Research Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa for the sole purpose of working on the Centenary Diamond with design specifications including strength and stability so as to preclude mechanical vibration and temperature variation to minimise any mitigating factor that might interfere with the cutting of the Centenary Diamond.