WORLD’S BIGGEST DIAMOND.
Several years ago a syndicate of mining men began sinking a shaft in Arizona to reach the largest diamond in the world. The shaft is now 1600 ft deep. The scene of this most wonderful mining operation is Meteor Mountain, Arizona. Scientists agree that the crater marks the place where a giant meteorite struck the earth in ages past, and burned itself deep in the bowels of the earth—just how deep it is the purpose of the syndicate to find out. A remarkable fact about this meteorite is that in all probability it consists of one huge diamond. Niir morons fragments of the meteorite have been found to contain, besides meteoric iron, large, hard, black diamonds of great value. Scientifically there is said to be every reason to believe that the Orizona meteor is well worth the years of effort and the hundreds of thousands of pounds that have been spent trying to locate it.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 7
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158WORLD’S BIGGEST DIAMOND. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 45, 17 October 1912, Page 7
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