The Big Hole is the largest man-made crater in the world!

Imagine a hole in the ground: it is one mile deep and it is nearly one mile all the way around. Now, picture this gap filled with 30,000 miners working around the clock to clear rubble and rock from that gaping hole.

This is pretty much what the Kimberley Mine - nicknamed the ‘Big Hole’ - looked like in the early 1900s. This mine produced over

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