Rough Stone
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Karoo Blue Mine, outskirts of Kimberley, South Africa, 4:40 pm. The Heart of the Cape, a 212-carat rough diamond found yesterday, has vanished from the tray of the glass safe in the sorting room.
The stone was last seen at 4:10 pm. Between 4:14 pm and 4:26 pm, power to the sorting wing went down, and with it the cameras and the door locks.
No one has left the perimeter since: the gates close on their own and the exit X-ray did not beep. The stone is still in the mine.
Three people had a badge for that room. One of them is lying.
The security room at the mine's surface, a window onto the bluish pit, fine dust on the sill.
Suspects
Sipho DlaminiHead of mine security, 48
Hendrik van WykChief mine engineer, 51
Lerato MokoenaMine diamond cutter, 34
Case glossary
Words from this case you might not know.
- Kimberley
- A city in South Africa that grew from a 19th-century diamond rush; home of the famous Big Hole mine.
- rough diamond
- A diamond as it comes out of the ground, before it is cut and polished.
The culprit will not confess on their own.
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