De Beers
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De Beers Group is a British multinational diamond company that specialises in the mining, trading and marketing of diamonds. The company is active in open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial and co
DeBeers store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California, in 2008
Cecil Rhodes founded De Beers in 1888
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, of the Rothschild family, funded the development of De Beers
Preference share of the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., issued 1 March 1902
Ernest Oppenheimer
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Sir Ernest Oppenheimer was a South African diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation in the Union of South
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…businessman Cecil Rhodes, who was financed by the South African diamond magnate Alfred Beit and the London-based N M Rothschild & Sons bank. In 1926, Ernest Oppenheimer, a German immigrant to Britain and later South Africa who had earlier founded mining company Anglo American with financial backing from J.P. Morgan…
Ernest Oppenheimer in 1945
Ernest Oppenheimer (right) visiting an Amsterdam diamond factory, 3 December 1945