Mine Museum Kimberley - Although the individual 500 meters wide hole, huge, just west of downtown, in particular, is really special, not only, or even usually the biggest hole in Kimberley, it is still so usually the main interest of the city. At its peak, tens of thousands of miners stormed the mine to work their actual implementation of ten square meters, and it really is, a network of cables and pipes accordingly crossed the actual surface, lives lost every day I saw so wealth is or may be a loss.

When the actual extraction could not go further from the actual surface of the well was dug to provide further excavations in this, so in reality, the depth of about 800m. Surprisingly, the hole is dug in the current depth of 240m will only take a shovel as well, and takes as one of the largest real man-made excavations in the region particularly in the world. Just 1914, when De Beers closed the real number of mining 22.6 million tons of soil was removed from approximately 13.6 million carats (2722kg) of diamonds.

The museum offers an R52 in particular, suffered millions of renovation and also provides a comprehensive overview of the main claim of Kimberley, in order of popularity. The hole itself is really great, no doubt see from a platform suspended from that normally you can spy on the blue, where once the mountains have been displaced in the search for true wealth. Instead usually part of the outline of a typical crater today including the tiny town, in particular, is almost certainly higher swallowed only by the actual measurement and more specifically the silence of the hollow below.

An instructional film places this in context, as well as several other programs, a large recreation of a mine shaft in the nineteenth century that the entire vault of real diamonds - which is the principal owner of "Eureka" diamond. Outside the museum itself, the workforce is composed of the classical city and a large collection of historic buildings, including several completely in general from the days of Rhodes and Barnato, were moved here from the center Demolition totally real case development and also threatened.