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To: Confluence who wrote (5087)	11/28/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: crudestope	Respond to of 7235

An Isle of Crude gem of a story. Dear Valuepro, Gemsearcher and Confluence. A riot has broken out on the Isle of Crude between supporters of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and the Humane Society (membership: one). Kamikaze forced Dodo to flap her wings. She managed to lift herself and Kami a few feet off the ground before collapsing, not surprising considering that the poor dear hasn't flown for centuries. At her age, 342, it could have killed her but fortunately she is now recovering in the RSPCA hospital. Not so fortunate is Kami. Dodo is a much adored inhabitant. Most of the local population wanted to punish him and were ready to hang, quarter and drag him through the bars of Crude. So I had him lowered into the bowels of Stope for his own protection. Now the Humane Society has accused me of cruelty to humans. I need Solomon. Whilst awaiting his arrival I retired to the habitat of my fellow dipsomaniacs. I had barely poured myself a tipple and was just about ready to knock it back when von Waldheim charged into our strata. It startled me because von Waldheim, our resident palaeontologist, is normally a very staid, reserved little fellow and his behaviour was out of keeping. "Hello, von Waldheim" I said and lit another ciggy "have you found de Blanville yet for another little argument?" but before he could answer quickly added "Explain yourself." "Good evening, Big Shot" he said and threw himself next to me "You know, I spoke on the Can'O'Phone to Boetie in Huambo." You could have heard a pin drop so immediate was the silence. "I didn't know we had a string to Huambo. Yabber?" I said turning to our phone operator. "Yea, but the string is a little slack, it goes via Lobito." said he "Not always easy to understand what they say and sometimes the string breaks on their end." "O.K. von Waldheim, what is your mining brother up to that excites you so much?" "Big Shot, he heard that a new very experienced diamond mining engineer is on the world's biggest undeveloped kimberlite pipe and has solved something to do with the ilmenite pile up." "Oh, really. How long has he been there, von Waldheim?" I asked, very annoyed for not having heard of this before. "He's been there for weeks and weeks and now a parcel of diamonds has turned up in Luanda for valuation. Boet has heard the diamonds are of good colour and of high......" And it was at this point, just when the conversation became electrifying, that Kami discovered the dynamite in Stope. What is more he was stupid enough to lit the fuse.......... My ambulance duty calls and I must be off. Crudestope. P.S. Communications with Angola are very poor and further complicated by my very rusty knowledge of Portuguese. I gather, however, that rumours there give values of US$30/tonne with total mining costs of US$5/tonne. I have not been able to verify the accuracy of these figures from my sources in South Africa and they should, therefore, be treated with caution.