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Diamonds: Preface & Table of Contents

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The CuUinan Diamond, from a photograph  by the
Author (see pp. 76-79) . .           Frontispiece
FIG.                                                                                                               FACING PAGE
I. River Washings at Klipdam .           . . 10
2.    Plan of the Kimberley Diamond Mines
3.    Kimberley Mine. The "Pipe"
4.    Section of Kimberley Mine
5.    Wesselton Diamond Mine. Open Workings
6.    De Beers Compound
7.    De Beers Mine. Underground Workings .
10 18 18
34 40 40
De Beers Washing and Concentrating Machinery     48
Sorting Concentrates for Diamonds. De Beers .      54
De Beers Diamond Office. 25,000 carats . .      72
De Beers Diamond Office. The Valuators'
Table           .               .               ...      72
A group of large Diamond Crystals            . .      76
Some Historic Diamonds               .           . .      80
Crystalline forms of native Diamonds         . .      86
Triangular Markings on natural face of a Diamond Crystal              .               .                         88
Triangular Markings artificially produced on a
Diamond Crystal         .               .                          88
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