| Show diamonds el 1 if 9 4 4 0 1 14 1 Z lob W abandoned mine at the kimberley group 11 by the th national society ask usk hington U V C 6 Is of new diamond amade depo deposits tIts in tanganyika has blade the colony the focal point of enthusiastic pros in search of the glittering bems lems the african diamond industry Is only silently slightly more than a hilf h cen tury fury old loday the continent produces nearly nine tenths of the norlie a supply it was in 1870 that the tile indy diet dist swept region of iland land south africa suddenly changed from froin no mans land I to kv ev er man muni e land when dia diamonds moods were there later it was an need to capt colony within such meticulously drawn boundaries hat inside one farmers bouse house the family dined in that colony and not cm lent to bed in the orange free state NOY JaM tOnes cs with din somehow that electrifying caption million as mer overlooked looked by news reporters in ISM when at llope lope town on the orange river the presence of ads in south africa was slin signaled aled by a child who was discovered placing with a 8 ca casu sully illy cp up gem weighing 2111 21 A carats at once the S nib african dia dia mend mind few feier was on ships lost their crews ose overseas reas shopkeepers lr ir derl a s police pollee fortes their thelt I 1 bobble the underworld its ili crooks and per blips the hurch li lost a curate and certainly navil lost a budding ct cot tun ton pearler he had once felt drawn to the in ln the case of an ili inv young fellow named cecil john III it odes all raked up the price to get them thein to lands land a desert of drouth and diamonds future kimberley was soon a scene of 0 canas cam as tents of wagons ted into huts of prospectors slewing the earth and of those who houat other mens men a fields on spec ul hurrying to and fro among the sorting tallies tables also there appeared the resource ful 1 I D B 1111 illicit cit daimond dl imond buy er alio ho cooperating nith mth what might be described as the daimond striling ng industry smuggled out stones in contravention to the lav lar stones in cigarettes pipes and hollow sinie shoe heels by no means exhausted his ingenuity the hungry dog trick that rf ef feeding a starved binim it on mat containing dia din mo id and retrieving hero them by cutting him open was much in rogue controlled the output uder under desert conditions food at often l arre are precious thin diamonds and hills it you could afford that luxury were viere taken in imported soda water despite prophecies of a brief tears ears life for kimberley KIm herley the first vm tv deci decider det showed a production of alx ix tons cf diamonds din monds from the gri qua country indeed by ISSO the possibility of south african stones swamping the norbet was so go appner arit that rhodes and his croup f formed amed the price and output contrell con troll ing pe de beers company modern kimberley oberley Kir abuts on a three circle billich con tal till althin barbed wire barriers mines h using compounds proc ess sheds company stores hospitals public baths and kitchens in fit fait t berthing thing necessary to the industry and its it bantit miners these boys are voluntary recruits who mine for six all months returning to their kraals M h the wherewithal hereM for meeting totes for buying NOW with cuttle cattle dowry or for less serijus each week in the kimberley mines some tons of blue ground hard earth are blasted out crushed fed into running nater unter rotated in steel drums giggled lisl dilong S in troughs and u i shed across surfaces ailed alth petroleum jelly the tile rotary pro process ces by centrifugal fone force el abates the ground up mass into different sized units the alg jiggling lin broess washes aslies ff away birren elements froni from the water nater borne con eon 1111 gra el like appearance and fin finally nily the tile diminished residue alons naros the petroleum surfaces to which only the diamonds adhere not at all exciting yet diminished residue Is put ting ling it but mildly since these rons rous of blue ground will mill produce L only about OVI pounds of diamonds say a n ratio of to L 1 ile might address the cleans r antio he broad blade in hand now aril ard then scrapes atthe the petroleum and throws it into a tat vat of boiling water witter scraping off millions of dollars worth of diamonds in this way ha ISO t it rather exciting athy no he be will III probably an in uner unemotionally notionally and everyone knows what familiarity breeds its about like handling mortar with a inside the sorting room to wilah visitors are admitted after an eye ho hm q them from bind a slid back pond men were poking di amonis through graduated boles holes la in niall small screens to ascertain the stones diameters ou on one table alone lay 18 WO carets weight of genii gems worth approximately a million dul dol lara lars feeling ai dizzy as all gaba baba in the treasure cave one asks asis trem of a sorter putting utting I millions of dollar dollars worth of diamonds through screen holes isn t it a bit thrilling oh no he answers suppressing a yawn yain ngien that familiarity corn com alexas plex as be he popped a one inch ilia dia mond through the lie screen I 1 its it s about like shelling peas kimberley town itself Is as sm pie and homelike ho mellie a place as you d find in tile suburban area of some amelcar city it has produced nearly worth of dia monds in half a century it a dim cult to see how the city could adequately have expressed its wealth production save by paeng its main street with gems but blit in truth it has been its fate to have created fortunes that too often flitted from south africa to the attractions in london and paris parts yet there was an exception at least one kimberley digger cecil rhodes could amass a fortune yet scorn to use it in tro common way great wealth constitutes a trust to be administered in the wider ulder inter ests of humanity such uch was hip hi view and that he did accor according dlag to his lights within bouti africa and for the tile british empire I 1 I 1 ou may strike his ills trail along the twisting street it follows the route of tone diners dip sers footpaths trim fral cin ell i 1 10 0 o calm that leads you to to tj tie e ng tig abandoned few new hush rush n nine tile here flore Is the vat extinct era cra ter agnost aln ott a mile around and a quarte of a mile deep that once spewed diamonds into Puro pemp cap atals and here too it if you vp eyes to see them swarm old time miners ghosts with mill avid eye and evarl clous hands sifting the earth an clawing at fortune tomorrow for or them the of paris 7 and london many used in industry not ot oil all dhionis 11 monts are destined to shine forth from jewelry that adorns men and women more afore than half the lie world 8 production of the stones in quantity Is used aged in industry some form hearings for watches chronometers electric meter ano rao other accurate instruments and laboratory apt aratus some in 10 which tapered holes are drilled are used for drawing fine wire of p plat 1 at anum silver gold and rare metals meta other industrial uses for dia monds are as drills for glass borce lain and similar hard substances turning tools for lathe work en graving points and as cutting edges for rock drilling and saing for industrial purposes only the less nearly perfect and less valuable stones are buted the united states Is the worlds greatest diamond consuming coun try normally it absorbs nearly the equivalent of the entire south AM can output if all the diamonds pro produced dued in the world in ir could luve have been combined com bied blied into a single cube cobe it would hare have been five and a half feet across each face a crystal block as tall as the average man ulan tind weighing more than a ton and ti it half in recent years yea a wealth of the gems has been literally scooped up from the earth in lie the regions of al fluvial diamond deposits until this change in mining methods came caine about the greater part of the dia monds have we been mined for decades by laborious to great depths in the pipes of extinct bokan et then came the slow work ork of sopa rating the stones from earth and rock A |
