![]() ![]() Had the teenager known that his discovery was to lead to the great South African diamond rush, he might well have called out “Eureka!” – the name eventually given to this yellow diamond of 21,25 carats.īut it was the deal made by Schalk van Niekerk, a Hopetown farmer, and a Griqua shepherd called Zwartbooi which really drew the world’s treasure hunters to the Northern Cape. The event, a pretty white pebble found by young Erasmus Jacobs on the banks of the Orange River. The place, the farm De Kalk near Hopetown.
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