EX-GERMAN DIAMOND FIELDS.
Just before the war Professor Kaiser of Giessen University, went to German
South-West Africa to investigate the diamondifous deposits. As the war prevented his return he spent almost seven years on the study. (His report states that in the territory actually exploited there are certainly 14,000, 000 carats, and probably 16,500,000. And he prediQts that from fields not yet exploited or only just beginning to be touched many more millions of carats may be obtained. A British concern, in which American capital is ( said to be interested, has just bought out the German diamond interests in this territory, which is now British, and called the SouthWest Protectorate. The price fixed by the Diamond Selling Syndicate under the new agreement is about £5 a carat.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3578, 14 September 1920, Page 7
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127EX-GERMAN DIAMOND FIELDS. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3578, 14 September 1920, Page 7
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