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DeBeer Diamond Mine Worker End-of-Shift X-Ray; photograph Kimberley, South Africa, October 1954
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Original caption from Getty Archives: 10/27/1954-Kimberly, South Africa
All African mine workers are x-rayed before leaving the diamond mines. A trained radiologist like the one in the picture can easily identify even the smallest diamond, which a would be thief might attempt to smuggle out of the mine in his stomach.
But how will this effect the small mom-and-pop shop diamond mines? Unbelievable