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Orapa

Town in the central Kalahari Desert, Botswana; population (2001) 9,200. The nearby Orapa diamond mine, with production at over 6 million carats a year, is the second-largest diamond mine in Botswana.

In 1967 Orapa was the site of the fourth diamond-bearing pipe (a column of igneous rock, originally an eruption of molten volcanic lava, which may contain diamonds) to be discovered in Africa; mining began in 1971.
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Debswana resumed production at its three mines of Jwaneng, Orapa and Letlhakane this week.
Top diamond producer Botswana to halve output by AFP / AFP Global Edition
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Batswana economy continues to go from strength to strength (despite the current recession that has seen demand for diamonds drop, forcing Debswana to suspend operations at Orapa for 2009), as decades of prudent financial management and diamond revenues feed through into other sections of the economy.
Botswana leads but Malawi is new star by African Business
Thus, Debswana has requested approval from the Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources to suspend production at its Damtshaa Mine and Orapa Number 2 Plant for 2009.
Diamonds not forever: Africa's shining example of economic ... by Mathe, Silethemba / New African
 
 
 
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