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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
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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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