DIAMOND: OCCURRENCE IN BRAZIL 



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Fig. 35. Diamond-fields of the Diamantina district, Brazil. (Scale, 1 : 600,000). 



them with more or less fulness according to the greater or less detailed character of 

 published accounts. We will begin with the long famous localities of Minas Geraes, of 

 which the majority have been very fully examined, and which, to a certain extent, serve as 

 a type of those which follow. 



It is usual to distinguish four diamond-fields in the State of Minas Geraes, namely. 



