Word: bultfontein
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...also chairman of Diamond Corp., was as optimistic about diamonds as his fellow South African, General Jan Christiaan .Smuts was pessimistic about gold. Operations were resumed last year at the Dutoitspan mine. With the world once more buying diamonds, said Sir Ernest, two other mines would soon be reopened: Bultfontein and Wesselton. Jagersfontein and Premier, where the great Cullinan diamond, world's largest (3,106 carats— 1 2/5 lb.), was found, would have to await larger quotas to permit profitable operation...
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