Bow River Diamond Mine

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The Bow River Diamond Mine was located at the southern end of Lake Argyle in the Kimberley in Western Australia , Australia . It was the only diamond mine in Australia in which diamonds were mined in an alluvial land. There are only two other diamond mines in Australia, the Argyle diamond mine with the largest diamond yield in the world and the Ellendale diamond mine .

A total of 7 million carats of diamonds were mined from 1988 to 1995 in an alluvial area of ​​the Bow River of 500 hectares. The nearby Argyle diamond mine is about 20 kilometers away.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ epa.wa.gov.au ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 834 kB): Poseidon Bow River Alluvial Diamond Mine Expansions , Kimberleys, in English, accessed on April 20, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / epa.wa.gov.au

Coordinates: 16 ° 34 ′ 44.8 ″  S , 128 ° 41 ′ 31.1 ″  E