Lemoine’s Diamonds
BEADED PACKET TO BE OPENED. By Telegraph.— Frees Association.—Copyright. LONDON, April 30. Received 30, midnight. Lemoine consents to the London Bank surrendering to the French judicial authorities his secret formula, on the examining magistrate agreeing not to open the packet until the expiry of two months required for his experimental manufacture of diamonds. Lemoine states that the envelope merely contains the formula for the manufacture of bort. (Sort, a word the origin of which is unknown, is used in two senses by diamond experts. Firstly it is a collective name for diamonds of inferior quality, especially such as have a radiating crystallisation so that they will not take a polish. Those are crushed to form the diamond powder which is used for cutting and polishing precious stones. In its other use bort indicates an amorphous variety of diamond, brown, grey, or black in colour, and known also as black diamond or carbonado. This is found In a massive state In Brazil in association with pure diamonds. It Is extensively used as the cutting material in diamond drills or stone saws for which ordinary diamonds are unsulted because of their tendency to crumble and cleave.)
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Southland Times, Issue 12123, 1 May 1908, Page 2
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