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IN an able paper entitled “The Diamond Pipes and Fissures of South Africa,” read before the Geological Society of South Africa rather more than a year ago, Mr. H. S. Harger refers more than once to the significance of the fact that diamonds have been found embedded in garnets. Perhaps the fact that the converse is also true, namely, that the garnet sometimes occurs embedded in the diamond, may not be without its share of interest. I have here at the present time a fragment of a Wesselton diamond, weighing a little more than a carat, containing a small, irregular garnet of about one-tenth of a carat. Originally the fragment seems to have formed a part of a shapeless diamond of perhaps two carats, which evidently enclosed either two or three small garnets, or garnets and diamonds.
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SUTTON, J. The Relationship between Diamonds and Garnets. Nature 75, 488 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075488b0
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