Abstract
THE author of this monumental work on the diamond has supreme claim to authority on the subject, having been connected with the diamond industry for more than thirty years, latterly as general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Limited, and consulting engineer to the Jagersfontein and Koffyfontein mines, and in former years as assistant to his predecessor in that post, his father, Dr. Gardner F. Williams, whose book, “The Diamond Mines of South Africa”, published in 1902, gave the first authentic account of the rise and development of the diamond mines of South Africa. The present book is not confined to its titular subject, but gives also a very readable account, fully illustrated, of the present-day practice of diamond mining and recovery, as adopted by the De Beers Company at Kimberley and elsewhere, as well as a chapter on the alluvial diggings in the diamond-bearing gravels of South Africa.
The Genesis of the Diamond.
By Alpheus F. Williams. Vol. 1. Pp. xv + 352 + vi + 89 plates. Vol. 2. Pp. xii + 353 – 636 + iv + plates 90–221. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1932.) 84s. net.
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Tutton, A. The Genesis of the Diamond . Nature 131, 255–257 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131255a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131255a0