You can buy a diamond mine in the Free State – but will have to move a 130-year-old mass grave
, and high operating costs have marred the mine – and has hoped to turn things around by introducing a business re-engineering project., Petra announced that it had embarked on a disposal process that will run concurrently with retrenchments.
Conditions in the compound housing these migrant workers were, like many mining sites at the time, abhorrent. Unsanitary and cramped living conditions, coupled with limited access to medicine and an ill-equipped mining hospital, led to disaster near the end of the 19th century.The true scale of this disaster waswhen, in 2002, three skeletons were unearthed during bulldozing operations near the mine dump.
"The skeletons seemed to have been buried in an informal graveyard, of which only a part was excavated,". Evidence showed that the bodies were buried in a hurry as the typhoid epidemic quickly overwhelmed the mine. That is until recently when Blue Diamond Mines – a division of Petra Diamonds operating Koffiefontein – hired G&A Heritage Properties to reapply for a permit to exhume and relocate the remains.
"Authorisation has been received to construct a mausoleum where the remains will be moved to," Petra Diamonds told Business Insider SA.
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