CHAPTER V.

GOLD AND DIAMONDS.

GOLD.--How widely distributed--Alluvial Gold-mining--Vein Gold-mining--Nuggets--Treatment of Ore and Gold in the Transvaal--Story of South African Gold-fields--Gold-production of the World--Johannesburg the Golden City--Coolgardie Gold-fields--Bayley's discovery of Gold there 102

DIAMONDS.--Composition--Diamond-cutting--Diamond-mining-- Famous Diamonds--Cecil J. Rhodes and the Kimberley Mines 135