A crater 2,500ft wide and 1,600ft deep... all to extract a pile of diamonds the size of a BEACH BALL (but it is still worth hundreds of millions of pounds)

• Artist Dillon Marsh, 33, used computer to create sculpture showing size of diamonds extracted from huge mines
• Then inserted scale model into his photographs to capture the mind-boggling contrast between the two
• Koffiefontein Mine, which measures 2,500ft wide by 1,600ft deep, produced pile of diamonds just three feet across 

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