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Ch. 8: Opening the Craters

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226 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
forms, together with guide wheels over which hauling ropes passed, dragging the buckets swiftly from the bottom of the mine on little overhead runners, rattling over the stationary roped inclines. When the loaded buckets reached the platform levels they were dumped into chutes carrying the contents into bags, which were readily carted away to level depositing grounds, or " floors," as they were technically termed, where the blue ground was sifted and sorted. The empty buckets were easily
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