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Encyclopedia Britannica



VET

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 161 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VET . 6minerals found in the concentrates are pebbles and fragments of
pyrope
 , zircon, cyanite, chrome-
diopside
 ,
enstatite
 , a green
pyroxene
 , mica, ilmenite, magnetite, chromite, hornblende, olivine,
barytes
 ,
calcite
  and pyrites.
In all the S.
African
  mines the diamonds are not only crystals of various weights from fractions of a carat to 150 carats, but also occur as microscopic crystals disseminated through the blue ground. In spite of this, however, the
average
  yield in the profitable mines is only from 0.2 carat to o6 carat per load of 1600 lb, or on an
average
  about 11 grs. per ton. The annual output of diamonds from the De Beers mines was valued in 1906 at nearly 5,000,000; the value per carat ranging from about 35s. to 70s.
Pipes similar to those which surround Kimberley have been found in other parts of S. Africa. One of the best known is that of Jagersfontein, which was really the first of the dry diggings (discovered in 1870). This large mine is near Fauresmith and 8o m. to the
south
  of Kimberley. In 1905 the year's production from the
Orange
  River Colony mines was more than 320,000 carats, valued at 938,000. But by far the largest of all the pipes hitherto discovered is the Premier


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