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Ch. 17: The Diamond Market

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162 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
There are a few other diamond mines in the Orange River Colony, but the yield of diamonds from all of them combined is small in comparison with Jagersfontein. The total output of diamonds from Jagersfontein up to March, 1901, was 2,168,399-1/4 carats, valued at £3,923,940. See Appendix VI.
Transvaal.1 There are alluvial diggings along the banks of the Vaal River a few miles above the river diggings in Griqua-land West, Cape Colony. The town of Christiana is situated near these diggings, lying just outside the jurisdiction of the Cape Colony and the late Orange Free State (now Orange River Colony), in which Colonies the Diamond Trade Act, which for­bids dealing in rough diamonds except by licensed dealers, is in
1 See Appendix IX.
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