6. Ordinary and rejection cleavage
7. Flats
8. Naats
9. Rubbish 10. Boart
Close Goods are supposed to be pure stones of desirable shapes. Spotted Stones are crystals slightly spotted. Rejection Stones are those seriously depreciated by spots. Cleavage are broken stones. Flats are flat crystals. The refuse classed as Rubbish and Boart is polishing material. The first eight classes are supposed to be further subdivided according to shades, as follows:
Blue white
First Cape
Second Cape
First bye
Second bye
Off color
Light yellow
Yellow
Only
the first grade or close goods are really carefully graded according to
these eight shades. With the other grades the sorters are less
particular. Each color is again subdivided into several sizes, and
when the goods
