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	about 1,600 owners on the Kimberley. From its dis­covery it had a stronger attraction for the diggers than either of the other mines. Although the crude methods in use during the early days allowed many stones of fair size and nearly all the very small ones, to escape with the tailings, enormous profits were made out of some of the claims. Barnato claimed that he made £1,800 per week out of the claims he owned in the Kimberley in the seventies.