THE CANTERBURY DIAMONDS.
[per press association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, Sept 28
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Pioneer and Kohinoor Diamond Companies last night the Chairman said that much larger stones had been obtained from Alford Forest and sent to England. Prospecting has now ceased for want of funds. Mr H. G. Harris, an experienced Kimberley diamond miner, who has spent a week at Alford Forest, expressed a strong opinion as to the desirability of further prospecting. He said that diamonds would not be found on the surface, but the present crystals bore the same relationship to diamonds as lignite did to coal. The indications of the Alford Forest crater more resembled the Kimberley mines than anything else he had seen. They had not found diamonds, but they had the right soil for them, and a country where, if diamonds were not there, they ought to be. These Alford Forest crystals were as near diamonds as anything could be, and when they found the real thing, their presence went to prove to his mind that diamonds were there. At Kimberley crystals were not found in the clay, but in the surface. A resolution was adopted,recommending the two companies to amalgamate for the purpose of raising more funds for thoroughly prospecting their joint grounds.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1093, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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213THE CANTERBURY DIAMONDS. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1093, 1 October 1883, Page 2
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