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The Big Dig

The Big Dig

Story of a diamond bonanza

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Renato Zane
Oct 04, 2022
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In the same year that Jesse James robbed his first bank, some younger boys on the other side of the world were playing alongside a river in South Africa. The year was 1866. The place the boys called home was not that different from the American West. They lived near Hopetown, a small community on the northern edge of the Karoo desert, near the Orange Ri…

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