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Show Diamond Mining Old mdustry. Diamond mining is an ancient industry, in-dustry, and In India antedates Christ's birth by many centuries There can be no question that the Roman Manilius was acquainted with the Indian In-dian diamond in A. D. 16. and a ring of Imperial times, set with a one-carat rough stone, has been preserved. Since then, diamond-mining lias furnished employment to tens of thousands, and for well over two hundred years to from seventy-five to one hundred thousand thou-sand men. It is a world-wide industry In which the common labor is almost wholly done by negroes. Exchange. |