Labels:book | daily | newspaper OCR: KIMBERLEY HIS DIAMOND MINE at Kimberley, South Africa, opened in 1871. Initially, land was set aside to be mined by individuals or groups (71/2 ft strips. These narrow bands were dug out so steeply that the roads between the excavations crumbled away. Today at Kimberley diamonds are extracted from underground mines The diamond -bearing rock "kimberlite" named after the Kimberley region KIMBERLEY MINE 1877 These ropes were pasn to diamonds from the mine under rapes haul