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DeBeer Diamond Mine Worker End-of-Shift X-Ray; photograph Kimberley, South Africa, October 1954 (files.catbox.moe)

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Original caption from Getty Archives: 10/27/1954-Kimberly, South Africa

All African mine workers are x-rayed before leaving the diamond mines. A trained radiologist like the one in the picture can easily identify even the smallest diamond, which a would be thief might attempt to smuggle out of the mine in his stomach.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

According to a Botswana based mine, 36% of the workers smuggle diamonds out of its mines by hiding them in the anus, 30% hide them between their buttocks, 14% use their socks and hair, 5% conceal the gems in their mouths, 2% place the gems under their scrotum, 2% hide them in their clothes, 2% use their underwear and 10% use other means.

If workers are so desperate as to put diamonds up their ass, then who are the ones doing the smuggling? The people who mined the rocks or the capitalists doing penis inspections? Also, what are the other means??