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What is used to mine diamonds?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Commercial diamond mines use heavy equipment -- earth movers and so forth -- to dig volumes of earth in areas where diamonds are present.

You can see examples of diamond mining equipment, below.

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