What are some strange facts for the diamonds?
1) Two of the first indications that diamonds were in South Africa, took place in 1867, when a farmer’s son; Erasmus Jacobs brought home an odd pebble that he had found by the Vaal River. The stone was placed on the kitchen window sill. The local pastor stopped by for dinner and noticed the stone. It was given to him and he showed it to a jeweler in a nearby town. It was declared a diamond crystal, about 1 1/2 inches across with a weight of 22 carats. The pastor sold the gemstone to the jeweler and took the check back to the boy’s father, who turned it away saying, ” I will accept no money for a pebble.” Two years later a shepherd found; in the same area a similar crystal, starting a mining rush that continues even today in many parts of Africa. 2) When the Cullinan Diamond (3,106 carats) was found in the Premier Mine in 1905, another diamond crystal of approx. 1500 carats was seen nearby but was unfortunately crushed by heavy machinery before it could be removed leading to the hypothe
