80 Rare Photos From The Past That Would Change Your View About The History Of The World

Aerial Tram View, 1885

Diamonds have always been something special and everybody wants them. Kimberley in the Northern Cape, South Africa is one place which is also considered as the epicenter of diamond mining. After the mining started, the workers built an entire town around the mine and to move around the place and to transport the diamonds they also built a series of railways. The mine was under the control of De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. one of the biggest diamond producers in the world. And they still are to this present day. This mine was shut down in 1914.