THE CAPE GOLD FIELDS.
The last accounts from the Cape say the news is encouraging, in so far that the diggers are continually excavating and getting out auriferous quartz, in expectation of a quarts-crusher soon being at work. Mr Solomon reports that about 187 tons of gold-bearing quartz is now on the surface ready for orushing. A diamond bed is said to have been discovered on the banks of the Orange River, and near to Aliwal North. Numbers of these gems are now being constantly advertised for public sale. A gentleman has arrived in the Colony from England, commissioned, it is reported, by a large European firm to make purchases of precious stones, and to institute inquiries as to the localities in which they are discovered.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 635, 12 February 1870, Page 4
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126THE CAPE GOLD FIELDS. Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 635, 12 February 1870, Page 4
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