Kimberlite is an igneous rock, which sometimes contains diamonds. It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa.

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Kimberlite is an igneous rock, which sometimes contains diamonds. It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an diamond called the Star of South Africa in 1869 spawned a diamond rush and the digging of the open-pit mine called the Big Hole

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