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Image number: 1354
Feature : diamond mining
Grouping : mining & energy
Discipline : economy, welfare and health
Year : 1999
Locality : North of Kimberley
Country : South-Africa
Region - tribe : Northern Cape
Physiographic region : Vaal & Orange River basin
Notice : notice Mining for gold and diamond and other rare minerals has an important impact on the lanscape in terms of landscape changes and pollutions of several kinds
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 1354.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"