{"id":35794,"date":"2021-06-15T10:24:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35794"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:24:37","slug":"south-africa-unidentified-stones-spark-hopes-of-a-diamond-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=35794","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Unidentified stones spark hopes of a diamond rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thousands of treasure seekers have flocked to KwaHlathi village in South Africa, believing the area could contain diamonds.<\/p>\n<p> It comes after a man in dug up a crystal-like stone in an open field and put out word of the discovery.<\/p>\n<p> The stone&#8217;s haven&#8217;t been analysed by geological experts yet, and authorities have asked people on site to leave so that a proper investigation can be carried out. <\/p>\n<p>The provincial government also shared a video of the area on twitter, expressing concern over what it has called a &#8220;diamond rush.&#8221; They tweeted that they had &#8220;noted with concern, the reports of illegal mining activity taking place at KwaHlathi outside Ladysmith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-57483877\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of treasure seekers have flocked to KwaHlathi village in South Africa, believing the area could contain diamonds. It comes after a man in dug up a crystal-like stone in an open field and put out word of the discovery. The stone&#8217;s haven&#8217;t been analysed by geological experts yet, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/118934014_p09ljf6c.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}