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THE MINES AND ME (7): BAD LUCK; GOOD LUCK

Posted on March 20, 2024 by wineou

In 1963, when I was working underground at Dutoitspan Mine’s block cave section in Kimberley, I was charging up some holes that had been drilled into a large rock which was preventing smaller rocks from filtering into the concrete tunnel … Continue reading →

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THE MINES AND ME (4): DENNIS

Posted on July 15, 2014 by wineou

One of the more unusual characters that I met in Kimberley’s diamond mines in the early sixties was a young man called Dennis Knox. Like many of the miners, he had done something else before starting to work underground. He … Continue reading →

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THE MINES AND ME (1)

Posted on August 22, 2013 by wineou

The mines and I got on quite well at first. When I started working underground at Dutoitspan in Kimberley as a learner official in 1960 I had just turned 17, and had spent the previous 10 years at Christian Brothers’ … Continue reading →

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