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Show Who Has Missing Half of Cullinan Diamond? When the Cullinan diamond, the largest in the world, estimated to be worth up to $25,000,000, and which is among the British crown jewels, was dug from the earth at the Premier mines at Cullinan, South Africa, in 1905, It was found that one side was so fiat and smooth that It ws considered consid-ered to be only part of a much bigger big-ger diamond. The enormous half brother, however, bas never been found, although scientists, diamond miners, financiers, geologists and thieves have been searching for it for twenty-three years. Its whereabouts and even its existence are one of the world's mysteries. South Africa abounds with strange stories of the miseing half of the Cullinan Cul-linan diamond. One version is that it was found by a native worker in the diamond mines who feared to dis-posa dis-posa of It because of the utrict luw governing the illicit selling of stones. A notorious criminal once almost had his hands on it the story goes, but he attempted to trick the native who was prepared to sell It to him ind the native fled with the diamond. |