There the De Beers company established a factory in 1902 at Somerset West.

Founded the De Beers Mining Company and owned the British South Africa Company, which established Rhodesia for itself.

* 1853 – Cecil Rhodes, English-South African businessman and politician, founded De Beers ( d. 1902 )

* De Beers

The idea that a man should spend a significant fraction of his annual income for an engagement ring originated de novo from De Beers marketing materials in the early 20th century, in an effort to increase the sale of diamonds.

* Two books about the attempted robbery of the De Beers diamonds from the Dome were published in 2004: Diamond Geezers-The Inside Story of the Crime of the Millennium ( ISBN 1843171228 ) written by Kris Hollington, published by Michael O ' Mara Books Ltd, and Dome Raiders-How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time ( ISBN 1852271949 ) written by Jon Shatford and William Doyle, published by Virgin Books

* Illegal Diamond Buying, the term used at the turn of the 19th-20th century for diamond trading outside the De Beers cartel.

* Element Six ( formerly De Beers Industrial Diamond )-a company specialised in providing superhard material solutions such as synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride for industrial applications

Having combined his commercial mining interests with Alfred Beit to form the De Beers Mining Corporation, Rhodes and he also wanted to control the Johannesburg gold mining industry.

One of De Beers ' most celebrated and priceless diamonds, the flawless D-colour Millennium Star was discovered in the DRC and sold to De Beers during the height of the Civil War that took place in the early to mid-nineties.

He was the founder of the diamond company De Beers, which today markets 40 % of the world's rough diamonds and at one time marketed 90 %.

The Millennium Star is a famous diamond owned by De Beers.

It was purchased by De Beers during the height of the country's Civil War that took place in the early to mid-nineties.

It was first displayed in October 1999 as the centerpiece of the De Beers Millennium diamond collection.

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Aspects of any given empire, such as the British Empire and its relation to its domestic businesses that were owned by a wealthy minority of individuals, such as the East India Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, and De Beers, manifest an observed relationship between a minority of individuals influencing Empire or State policy, such as the Child's War in India, the Anglo-Mysore Wars in India, the Anglo-French conflicts on Hudson Bay in Canada, and the Second Boer War in South Africa, follow a pattern where the Empire allocates resources pursuing and sustaining policies that financially profit the Empire's domesitc business's owners.

* Consolidated Diamond Mines, the Namibian subsidiary of De Beers

Harry Oppenheimer was the chairman of Anglo American Corporation for a quarter of a century and chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines for 27 years until he retired from those positions in 1982 and 1984 respectively.

His son Nicky Oppenheimer became Deputy Chairman of Anglo in 1983 and Chairman of De Beers in 1998.

He personally directed that Israel receive the necessary diamond raw products from De Beers in order to establish itself as one of the world's diamond polishing and exporting countries.

Sheila Khama, a distant relative of Seretse Khama Ian Khama is the CEO of De Beers Botswana, the largest mining company in Botswana, and part of the largest mineral mining company in the world.

By good fortune, Smuts ’ father knew the leader of the group, Jan Hofmeyr ; Hofmeyr recommended Jan to Cecil Rhodes, who owned the De Beers mining company.

The Steinmetz Pink was displayed as part of the Smithsonian's " The Splendor of Diamonds " exhibit, alongside the De Beers Millennium Star, the world ’ s second largest ( the Centenary Diamond is the largest ) top colour ( D ) internally and externally flawless pear-shaped diamond at 203. 04 carat ( 40. 608 g ), the Heart of Eternity Diamond, a 27. 64 carat ( 5. 582 g ) heart-cut blue diamond and the Moussaieff Red Diamond, the world's largest known Fancy Red diamond at 5. 11 carats ( 1. 102 g ).

It was named the Centenary Diamond as it was presented in the rough for the Centennial Celebration of De Beers Consolidated Mines on May 11, 1988.

There was a special room designed underground in the De Beers Diamond Research Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa for the sole purpose of working on the Centenary Diamond with design specifications including strength and stability so as to preclude mechanical vibration and temperature variation to minimise any mitigating factor that might interfere with the cutting of the Centenary Diamond.

It is believed that De Beers no longer owns the Centenary, but the current owner is unknown.

* De Diamant (" The Diamond ", 1954 ; novel )

The dissertation, The dynamics of degassing and explosive volcanism in kimberlite pipes, involved experimental work on the gas-fluidization of particles and fieldwork at Jwaneng Diamond Mine in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, and the De Beers Venetia Mine on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border.

The dwellings in Faringdon Road had an annex at the bottom of Safron Hill, these have been restored and now belong to the De Beers Diamond Group.

**" Diamond Mind " is a satire inspired by the music of a De Beere diamond commercial that uses music composed by Karl Jenkins, which he later used as a theme of the orchestral piece Palladio ( see http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / File: Palladio. ogg ).

The De Beers Diamond Research Laboratory has grown stones of up to for research purposes.

It became known as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, and De Beers continued to back the event until 2006.

In De Diamant ( The Diamond ) Bassie & Adriaan have a diamond named after them.

The town was run by Namdeb ( formerly Consolidated Diamond Mines ), now a subsidiary of De Beers.

* Diamond Trading Company, the world's largest marketer of rough diamonds and company within the De Beers group

In 1905 Lemoine contacted Sir Julius Wernher, British banker and one of the governors of De Beers Diamond Mines.

Some of the more prominent towns in this area are Springbok, being the capital of this region, as well as Kleinzee and Koiingnaas, both private mining towns owned by De Beers Diamond Mines.

* Nicky Oppenheimer ( born 1945 ), chairman of De Beers and of The Diamond Trading Company, son of Harry

In 2003 he was appointed ombudsman for the Diamond Trading Company ( DTC ), the marketing offshoot of diamond mining giant De Beers.

Nicholas " Nicky " F. Oppenheimer ( born 8 June 1945 ) is a South African businessman, the chairman of the De Beers diamond mining company and its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company.

The new De Beers Diamond mine in James Bay will also provide many new opportunities.