The road of diamonds!

[Michael Alexander]

Between the log cabin and the riding club is an old tar road....all covered and scraped up...no longer in use....there is a dirt 4x4 track that runs alongside it.... the questions I have.....

1) what road was this?
2) when was it built?
3) and is there any truth in the rumour I heard, that the road was built with diamond bearing gravel, in a time when the town was still closed?

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

 
there used to be a tar plant out there. produced tar for the town roads.
i think excess tar was dumped on the ground there, to form a road to and from the tar plant. or they just built their own road to make things easier.

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[Michael Alexander]

...aha..the plot thickens.... but did they use conglomerete at the tar plant or at least on that road...?

[georg ruf jr.]

You shouldn't have talked about it Michael. Take your spade and go there at night... Carefull! Fullmoon is coming:
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[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

 
the road has been there from the early 60s
tailings from the mine plants was used to make the tar, so yes there will be crushed conglomerete in the road.
this includes all town roads and the road to 1 plant.

My father Bob Stenson used to work for the roads department as a mechanic in those days.

C.D.M also tarred Alexander airport.

[Hooter]

according to Barney , the recovery forman of years ago , if something was for sale , he would buy the tar road in front of the GM's house as well , because it was made from the tailings of the Electrostatic seperators . Those seprating machines were very in efficient

[Malcolm Bertoni]

Would that be Barney Briel?

I worked with him at 4 plant and 66m

I believe that there is or was a building near the old single quarters in town that has/had about $2 m worth of high quality diamonds in its foundations. This was around 1972.

How it got there is another story....

Malcolm

[Hooter]

Yes . it was Barney Briel who told me this .He retired and moved to Parys . OFS. where he lived about two street blocks away from where Robert Du Preez stayed . Robert used to work in the engine rebuild shop at Uubvlei

[Michael Alexander]

... and the streets were paved with gold...... heheheh this is interesting... I need to get a list of possible suspect buildings, for when they sell them....

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

Why do you suppose so many guys became plumbers ?  :emot26: bling1

[Michael Alexander]

Stennie, here;s a snap of your folks..... strange place for me to post it, but I did a search for Bob Stenson...and this topic came up.....

[Michael Alexander]

Drove the road of diamonds this morning....

[Alfred Boehme]

When you entered the Diamond Town they had to let you in on a road of Diamonds surely this must of been the old road from Swartkops Garages into Town in the old days before my Time

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

There was a tar plant there for making the roads in town, the road was made by them from excess tar... 

[Michael Alexander]

I wonder if this rubble next to the road are the remains of the plant?