According to information received in this country5
a flawless blue-white diamond, weighing 1,400 carats and valued at
$500,000, was discovered on the property of this company near the point
where the famous Cullinan diamond was found. It was later reported that
this stone had been split into about a dozen fragments by the crushing
machinery, whether by accident or not is not stated. The largest piece
recovered is said to weigh 300 carats and is valued at approximately
$220,000.
Acccording
to the Financial Times the report of the New Jagers-fontein Mining
& Exploration Co. for the year ending March 31, 1919, is of more
than ordinary interest, for although there was a falling off in the
quantity of ground washed and in the number of carats of diamonds
found, the total value of the stones produced was higher than that for
1918. No details are given of the value per carat of the various
classes of stones. At a meeting at Kimberley the chairman stated that
the fine blue-white stone weighing 388-1/4 carats found on the dump in
January, 1919, was taken in the books at the end of March at the
average cost of production, but has since been sold at a very high
price.
NEW DIAMOND-MINING DISTRICT NORTH OF KIMBERLEY.
A
new diamond-mining district" is said to have been discovered at
Tlaring, near Taungs, in Bechuanaland, about 100 miles north of
Kimberley. So great is the rush of prospective diggers from the Cape to
the Zambesi and Mozambique, and even into the Kongo, that the
Government has decided to lay out a township to receive the new
community.
OPERATIONS ON VAAL RIVER.
A company called Deep Water Diamonds has been formed to recover diamonds from the bed of Vaal River, South Africa,7 by means of an air-lock caisson or diving bell. According to a descrip-
E Jewelers' Circular, Doc. 24, 1919.
« Manufacturing Jeweler, vol. 66, No. 5, Jan. 29, 1920.
1 Min. and Sci. Press, Dec. 6, 1919.
