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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
- CHAPTER I The Ancient Adamas
- CHAPTER II In Traditional Ophir Land
- CHAPTER III The Pioneer Advance
- CHAPTER IV The Discovery
- CHAPTER V The Camps on the Vaal
- CHAPTER VI The Rush to Kimberley
- CHAPTER VII The Great White Camps
- CHAPTER VIII Opening the Craters
- CHAPTER VIII Opening the Craters 241 to 266
- CHAPTER IX The Moving Men
- CHAPTER X The Essential Combination
- CHAPTER XI Systematic Mining
- CHAPTER XII Winning the Diamonds
- CHAPTER XIII Obstacles and Perils
- CHAPTER XIV The Workers in the Mines
- CHAPTER XV The Mining Towns
- CHAPTER XVI Formation of the Diamond
- CHAPTER XVII The Diamond Market
- CHAPTER XVIII Cutting and Polishing
- CHAPTER XIX An Uplifting Power
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
CHAPTER XII - Winning the Diamonds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
- CHAPTER I The Ancient Adamas
- CHAPTER II In Traditional Ophir Land
- CHAPTER III The Pioneer Advance
- CHAPTER IV The Discovery
- CHAPTER V The Camps on the Vaal
- CHAPTER VI The Rush to Kimberley
- CHAPTER VII The Great White Camps
- CHAPTER VIII Opening the Craters
- CHAPTER VIII Opening the Craters 241 to 266
- CHAPTER IX The Moving Men
- CHAPTER X The Essential Combination
- CHAPTER XI Systematic Mining
- CHAPTER XII Winning the Diamonds
- CHAPTER XIII Obstacles and Perils
- CHAPTER XIV The Workers in the Mines
- CHAPTER XV The Mining Towns
- CHAPTER XVI Formation of the Diamond
- CHAPTER XVII The Diamond Market
- CHAPTER XVIII Cutting and Polishing
- CHAPTER XIX An Uplifting Power
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
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- The Diamond Mines of South AfricaSome Account of their Rise and Development, pp. 360 - 383Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1902