 Owing to the working conditions and effects of the Typhoid epidemic, there grew a dissatisfaction among the miners which resulted in an attempt by the miners to escape the living compounds.One of the mineworkers was shot in a riot and later died from his wounds.In 2001, during operations to rework earlier mine dumps undertaken by archeologist Zoe Henderson, three skeletons were discovered at the Koffiefontein Diamond Mine in the Free State province of South Africa.