DIAMONDS OK CRYSTALS?

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4131, 28 September 1883, Page 2

DIAMONDS OK CRYSTALS ?

An Experienced Diggor's Opinion of tho Canterbury Fiolds.

[UY KLEeBATH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHBISTCHtfHCJt, this day. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Pioneer andKohlnoov Diamond Company last night, the Chairman said much larger stones? had been obtained front Afford Forest and sent to England. Prospecting had now censod for wont of funds. H. G.Harris, an experienced Kimberley diamond miner who has spent ii WCftk at Alford Forest, expressed a strong opinion as to the desirability of further prospecting, UCSiUUtIiC diamonds would not bo found on Hie surface, but the present crystals bore the saniC relationship to diamonds as lignite did to coal, The indications of Alford Forest crater more i'es>'ombled the Kimbcrtey mines than anything else ho had. seen. They had not found diamonds, but they had the right soil for them, and a country wliere, v diamonds were not, they ought to be* These. Alford Forest crystals were as near diamond" as anything (;ould l>e till they found the real thing. Their presence went to prove to his mind that diamonds Mere there. At Kimberley, the crystals were ; not found in the clay the diamonds were '■ found in, but in the surface. A resolution wns adopted recommending the two Companies to amalgamate for the purpose of raising move ftmds for thoroughly prospecting their joint ground.