Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · London : Macmillan & Co. · leaf 241
Fig. 55.—^A Diamond Mine at Kimberley, South Africa One evening a traveler stopped at a Boerfarmhouse. He saw the pretty stones whichthe children were playing with, and he recog- 228 HOW WE ARE CLOTHED nized them as diamonds. Of course the newsspread, and people came to dig the preciousstones from… … Fig. 50.—The Largest Diamond ever found in the KimberleyMines. It weighed 603 carats. Found in De Beers Mine,June 8, 1896. searching for them. This blue earth is liftedto the surface by machinery and washed,screened, and carefully sorted. As the stonesare very valuable, the miners are searched…
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