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Diamond mines and mining

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Mines and mineral resources
Diamond industry and trade

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Images about Diamond mines and mining

2 images from works
  • African workers washing for diamonds in Brazil. Etching after T. Webster after J. Mawe, 1815.
  • Sêrro do Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil: slaves washing soil for diamonds, supervised by men with whips. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, 1821, after J. Mawe.

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    Sêrro do Frio, Minas Gerais, Brazil: slaves washing soil for diamonds, supervised by men with whips. Coloured aquatint by D. Klemi-Bonatti, 1821, after J. Mawe.

    Mawe, John, 1764-1829. | Date: [1821] | Reference: 47270i
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    "A bem da nação" : medical science in a diamond company in twentieth century colonial Angola / Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda Preces Ferreira.

    Ferreira, Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda Preces. | Date: 2007
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    African workers washing for diamonds in Brazil. Etching after T. Webster after J. Mawe, 1815.

    Mawe, John, 1764-1829. | Date: 29 July 1815 | Reference: 30997i

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