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__​​Phratalie SA Co.__ By: Rocco,Natalie,and Philip

Why Businesses Should Invest In South Africa Facts About Previous Mines Facts about Today's Mines Venetia Diamond Mine The Cullinan Diamond Mine Premier Diamond Mining Company
 * South Africa has beautiful natural resources.
 * South Africa has grown economiclly with a strong mining industry and technological advancements.
 * The whole economy is built on mining.
 * All natural resources in South Africa: gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt,and natural gas.
 * Therefore all these factory's we invested in are the ones that are talked about.
 * Kimberly, Northern Cape in South Africa is a great mining town. It came to be by a boy named Erasmus Jacobs found a small white pebble.
 * That small white pebble ended up to be a 21.25 carat diamond.
 * Slopes of Colesberg Kopje leaded to a also great diamond mine.
 * Miners arrived by the thousand and the hills began to appear which made a huge hole known as "Big Hole" which is the open pit mine.
 * The largest company to have a diamond mine in South Africa during the diamond rush was the De Beers Company.
 * Around 1873, the De Beer brothers sold their compony which is now called De Beers Consolidated Mines.
 * As of today, five enormous holes have been dug into the earth at Kimberley, each following the trail of the kimberlite pipes.
 * The "Big Hole" got the record for 3 tons of diamonds and 170,000 meters and reached a depth of 3,520 feet.
 * Venetia is a conventional open-pit mine located on a kimberlite.
 * The Venetia is an open-pit diamond mine that produces over 40% of the world's gem-quality diamonds.
 * Right now the mine uses surface mining techniques that are expected to carry on for 20 years.
 * The Ventia diamond mine is here today and is the De Beers Company's flagship operation today.
 * The diamonds are extracted from the pit and the undisturbed kimberlite by using the overshot-zone drilling and/or blasting.
 * The Cullinan Diamond Mine has been known for ebing the place with the worldest largest diamonds.
 * Prospector Thomas Major Cullinan bought the land in 1902.
 * The mine is located in Gauteng Province.
 * The largest rough gem-quality diamond in the world was found by Frederick Wells.
 * The rough stone was 3,106.75 carats, weighed over 1.3 pounds.
 * The diamond was also colorless and called "Cullinan Diamond."
 * The largest polished diamond in the world was found in the Premier Diamond Mine and has a cut weight of 545.67 carats.

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