black diamonds

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“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemcial relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as ‘black diamonds.’ Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.”

—Joseph Conrad, Victory: An Island Tale, 1915.

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