An Environmental Impact Assessment for a New Diamond Mine at Gope, Botswana. Environmental Impact Statement- By Geoflux (Pty) Ltd & Gope Exploration Company (Pty) Ltd , 10 October 1998

it a diamond -bearing kimberlite pipe discovered by Falconbridge Exploration Botswana (Pty) Ltd in the early 1980s. Following the discovery of the kimberlite, additional drilling work and analyses of the samples proved that the deposit was diamondiferous.