The diamond diggers : South Africa 1866 to the 1970's
Inbunden bok. Tom Stacey. 1971. 133 sidor.
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Två små ca 2 x 2 mm fläckar på försättsbladet. Skyddsomslaget ojämnt blekt. The story of South Africa's diamonds in The Diamond
Diggers brings together the wretched and the mighty, the
beautiful and the crude. lvor Herberttells of the desperate
early days of Kimberley's Diamond Rush — the shanty
towns, collapsing pits, whores auctioning themselves
for champagne...
Above all, it is the story of a few remarkable men:
Fleetwood Rawstorne,thejaunty young prospector whose
drunken servant found the first diamond on what was to
become the Kimberley ‘Big Hole’; Cecil Rhodes, the
consumptive youth who planned an Empire; his great rival, Barney Barnato, the young
East End variety artist who arrived
at the Vaal River diggings with a
few pounds and forty boxes of
cigars, and the deceptively mild
Ernest Oppenheimer, who found-
ed the complex organisation
which today controls the production and sale of most of the
world's diamonds.
Many highly dramatic events
are described in this fascinating
book: Dr Jameson's foolhardy
attempt to overthrow the Boer
Government in 1895, resulting in
Rhodes’ political ruin; Barney
Barnato's threat to President Kruger to bankrupt the Transvaal if
thefourJameson Raid ringleaders
were hanged, and his suicide
within a year; and the 124-day
siege of Kimberley.
Even in recent years individuals
have struck it rich. The Finsch
Mine — the only important diamond pipe unearthed in South
Africa since the Premier Mine was
discovered in 1902 — was found
by two prospectors (who were
searching for asbestos) in 1958.
lt was bought by De Beers for
£2 million in1963.
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