that diamond field is the law manasseh of mine named after the local scientists and poet mihailo manasseh of back in the seventeenth century he said that there were diamonds in the region but the gems weren't found until much later this period opened in one thousand nine hundred eighty two and the first dime. and was extracted just five years ago not an easy task in a water rich region the field is located smack in the middle of a marshland and it rivers and springs engineers had to build an eight kilometer long kamau to divert the water flow just like you i don't know any other diamond fields where the extraction conditions are so complicated their work is like looking for needles in a haystack in every truckload of rocks only two or three diamonds can be found but there are no ordinary diamonds. deposits produced transparent or barely colored gemstones here we find intensely colored diamonds green yellow even pink and blue. this side right here is one hundred metres deep and it produces about half a million carats worth of diamonds each year now this is just the beginning because they p