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Diamond mines trace rise from mud to world riches
The article recounts South Africa’s diamond finds from Van Wyk’s mud plastered walls to the Kimberly and De Beers fields. It links early pebbles found by a Boer farmer and Rawstorne’s undisputed discovery to a lineage of vast wealth, Beers and Wesselton mines, and the dramatic desert veldt tales.
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South Africa
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Rawstorne
Kimberly
Weeselton
de Beers Company
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Dutchtspan
Gulfontein
Wesselton