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Ch. 10: The Essential Combination

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344 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
underground works at that time, but the directors of De Beers mines desired to furnish employment to miners out of work, and the mine would have been opened and explored on a return of bare expenses, if the lessors had seen fit to make reasonable terms. As their demands were considered exorbitant, work in this mine was also stopped in 1889, and was only commenced
again in 1900. Plan on p. 333 shows how the mine is being opened. There are nearly 13,000,000 loads of blue ground in sight above the 600-foot level.
Premier Mine
In December, 1891, the farm, Benaauwdheidsfontein, adjoin­ing Kimberley, and lying on the border line between Griqualand West and the Orange Free State, was purchased in full by the De
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