Panna Mines, Panna, Panna District, Madhya Pradesh, Indiai

Regional Level Types
Panna Mines	Group of Mines
Panna	Municipality
Panna District	District
Madhya Pradesh	State
India	Country

A diamond property that produced 15,000 carats per year with 580,000 carats of reserves (estimated, 1984).

Panna is a city famous for diamond mines.

From Wikipedia:

"A large group of diamond deposits extends North-East on a branch of the Vindhya Range for 150 miles (240 km) or so, and is known as the Panna group. They do not cover an area of more than 20 acres (81,000 m²). Great pits, 25 feet (7.6 m) in diameter and, perhaps, 30 feet (9.1 m) in depth, are dug for the sake of reaching the diamond conglomerate, which, in many cases, was only a very thin layer. According to Valentine Ball, who edited the 1676 'Travels in India' of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Tieffenthaler was the first European to visit the mines in 1765 and claimed that the Panna diamonds could not compare in hardness and fire with other locations in India. No really large diamonds have come from this area. The most productive mines were in the 1860s and were found in Sakaria, around 20 miles (32 km) from Panna. Four classifications were given to the Panna diamonds: first, Motichul, clear and brilliant; 2nd, Manik, with a faint orange tint; 3rd, Panna, verging in tint towards green; 4th, Bunsput, sepia coloured. The mines are situated in the interior of Panna district. Diamond mines in Panna are managed under the Diamond Mining Project of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC Ltd) of the Government of India. In other mines every year the land is leased to prospective miners by the government agency. The diamonds unearthed are all collected by the district magistrate of Panna and are auctioned in the month of January. Auctions are open to the public and require a R.s 5000 deposit. Upwards of 100 diamonds of different carat and shade are offered for auction."

Geochronology

Mineralization age: Proterozoic : 2500 Ma to 541 ± 1.0 Ma

Important note: This table is based only on rock and mineral ages recorded on mindat.org for this locality and is not necessarily a complete representation of the geochronology, but does give an indication of possible mineralization events relevant to this locality. As more age information is added this table may expand in the future. A break in the table simply indicates a lack of data entered here, not necessarily a break in the geologic sequence. Grey background entries are from different, related, localities.

Geologic Time				Rocks, Minerals and Events
Precambrian
	Proterozoic			ⓘ Quartz-arenite Proterozoic (541 - 2500 Ma) Majhgawan diamond pipe, Panna Mines, Panna, Panna District, Madhya Pradesh, India
		Neoproterozoic
			Tonian	ⓘ Lamproite (youngest age) 974 ± 30 Ma Majhgawan diamond pipe, Panna Mines, Panna, Panna District, Madhya Pradesh, India
		Paleoproterozoic
			Statherian	ⓘ Lamproite (oldest age) 1630 ± 353 Ma Majhgawan diamond pipe, Panna Mines, Panna, Panna District, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panna,_India
Wikidata ID:	Q593695

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