Main page > Trade, Industry and Agriculture > Trade, Industry and Agriculture in Africa > Diamond Mining in Africa Please click on the images below:  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3059C/7 | | Originator: | Middlebrook, J E, fl 1890-1899, photographer | | Title: | The Mine - Flat sheet on 800 level, bottom of rock shaft (underground) | | Description: | Showing trolleys and track at the lowest flat sheet in the De Beers mine. | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3059C/12 | | Originator: | Middlebrook, J E, fl 1890-1899, photographer | | Title: | The Mine - Open works, escape shaft | | Description: | Showing the headgear of the winch-operated escape shaft, with discarded trolleys and pit props lying around in the background. | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3059C/13 | | Originator: | Middlebrook, J E, fl 1890-1899, photographer | | Title: | Head Gear incline shaft, showing engine houses and skip tipping | | Description: | Showing the headgear machinery for lifting the trolleys to the surface, with the skips into which is poured the blue ground beyond, and the driving gear in the engine house in the background... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3059C/21 | | Originator: | Middlebrook, J E, fl 1890-1899, photographer | | Title: | The Floors - No. 1 Washing Machine | | Description: | Showing trolleys being lowered by winch into the stone walled trench at the far end of which is the washing machinery. The accompanying text reads... | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3059C/25 | | Originator: | Middlebrook, J E, fl 1890-1899, photographer | | Title: | The Floors - Sorting the gravel for diamonds | | Description: | Showing a group of three sorters bent over piles of gravel laid out on tables, with a supervisor standing in the foreground. | | Full information |
|  | | Classmark: | RCS Y3059C/26 | | Originator: | Middlebrook, J E, fl 1890-1899, photographer | | Title: | Head Offices - 'De Beer's Consolidated Mines, Limited' | | Description: | Showing the brick-built De Beers Head Office, situated on a corner next to the Kimberley Diamond and Share Market. | | Full information |
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