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God is looking for diamonds
 We stood there, wearing our hard-hats and white duster coats, looking all the world like a bunch of field-service doctors responding to an industrial emergency. What we actually were doing, however, was very different from that. This was a diamond mine in South Africa, and we were being given a special tour through the entire process.
Activity was everywhere. Huge conveyor belts were building great piles of diamond-bearing ore. Powerful crushers with unbelievable pressure were reducing the larger chunks of rock to a smaller grade … then to smaller gravel. We passed great vats, looking remarkably like super king-sized mixing bowls. Here the slush of this crushed stone and water were stirred continually. The diamonds would go to the bottom and then into another container, along with a considerable residue of gravel.
After several stages of this process the last tailings (finely crushed rocks mixed with diamonds) went through a final separation. A tall watercourse, built like a set of steep stairs, had been made into a waterfall. At the top, these tailings were fed into the stream.
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Leonard Gray is a retired foreign missionary. If you would like to talk to him about this or any other religion related subject, you may call him at (318) 299-7610. |
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