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    The De Beers Group is a South African- British corporation that specializes in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond inscription...
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    its centrepiece the world's seventh-largest diamond at the time, the "De Beers". That diamond had a 428 carat pre-cut weigh, and it weighed 234.65 carats...
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  • Beers may refer to: plural of beer, an alcoholic beverage Beers (surname) Beers, Friesland, a Dutch place in the Friesland municipality of Littenseradiel...
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  • De Beers diamonds antitrust class action sought to end an alleged 60-year conspiracy to fix the price of rough diamonds in the U.S. by the De Beers group...
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    South African billionaire businessman. He was formerly the chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company...
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  • skater Wolfgang de Beer (born 1964), German footballer Zach de Beer (1928–1999), South African politician and businessman De Beers, diamond company named...
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    Trading Company (DTC) is a subsidiary of De Beers and markets rough diamonds from De Beers-operated mines. De Beers and its subsidiaries own mines that produce...
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  • former executive of De Beers and a former vice-president of his family's firm, Anglo American plc. Jonathan is the son of former De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer;...
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    diamond corporation De Beers has been headquartered at No. 17 since 1979, except between 2017-2020, though the street has homed De Beers since the 1930s....
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    Suzman, De Beer lost his seat in the 1961 general election. He joined an advertising agency before moving on to work for the Anglo American PLC/De Beers diamond...
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  • The De Beers Diamond Oval is a cricket stadium in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. It opened in 1973 and has a capacity of 11,000. It is currently...
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  • advertising in 1884. It created a number of memorable slogans for firms such as De Beers, AT&T and the U.S. Army. The company started to decline in the 1960s and...
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  • The Millennium Star is a diamond owned by De Beers. At 203.04 carats (40.608 g), it is the world's second largest known top-color (grade D, i.e. colourless)...
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  • nitride and other superhard materials for industrial use. Part of the De Beers Group, Element Six employs over 1,900 people and its primary manufacturing...
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  • Chabang and was selected to herald De Beer's centennial celebrations in 1988. The Golden Jubilee was purchased from De Beers by a group of Thai business people...
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    "Red Cap Party" from Colesberg at Vooruitzigt Farm, which belonged to the De Beers brothers, in 1871. The ensuing scramble for claims led to the place being...
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  • Anglo American plc (category De Beers)
    in the company's name. The AAC became the majority stakeholder in the De Beers company in 1926, a company formerly controlled by Alfred Beit, also a Jewish...
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    Ernest Oppenheimer (category De Beers people)
    gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. Ernest Oppenheimer...
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    de Beer. She was the daughter of George Stephanus de Beer (b. 1794). It is also thought that Rachel was the daughter of Matthys Stephanus Johannes de...
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  • opened in 1973 Debswana was formed as the De Beers Botswana Mining Company on the 23rd of June 1968, after De Beers geologists identified diamond-bearing...
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  • – 11 August 2023) was a South African businessman who was chairman of De Beers and the Anglo American mining company. Julian Ogilvie Thompson was born...
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  • Sir Alfred Beit's death in 1906, De Beers bought Beit and Rhodes's shares. Returns were never high and in 1927 De Beers ordered an investigation into its...
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  • The De Beers Stadium in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa was the home ground of the Griqualand West (now called Northern Cape) cricket team from...
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    schools. The weakest beers are dealcoholized beers, which typically have less than 0.05% alcohol (also called "near beer") and light beers, which usually have...
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    beer with less than 3.5% alcohol. Light beers are beers with reduced caloric content compared to regular beer, and typically also have a lower alcoholic...
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    Diamond (gemstone) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    desirable gemstones. The modern popularity of diamonds was largely created by De Beers Consolidated Mines, which established the first large-scale diamond mines...
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  • Stars (2001) Shooting Stars (2002) (omnibus) The De Beers family series tells the story of Willow De Beers, who learns from her father's diary that her real...
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    poor performance, Tanzania invited De Beers to purchase back into the mine, which the company did. In 1994 De Beers bought 75% of the Williamson mine,...
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    doing so, De Beers was able to continue setting the market price and hold its dominant position in the industry. In following years, De Beers made several...
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    nomenclature for the different beers produced which relate to their relative strength. The best known is the system where different beers are called Enkel/Single...
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