De Beers
About De Beers
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 coastal mining. It operates in 35 countries, with mining taking place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Canada. It also has an artisanal mining business, Gemfair, which operates in Sierra Leone.
On the show — 14 mentions total
De Beers use a giant vacuum cleaner to get diamonds from the bottom of the sea.
from 287: No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven, 2019-09-20 at 00:20:58 · read transcript
Other times De Beers came up
That's a thing in China as well, that you write down a confession and you do it on three separate bits of paper and then you light the confession up. It's a way of almost a priest saying... That must be bad if your lighter runs out and you've written something really darkly on the piece of paper. Oh, my God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Is there a reason why it's three, De Beers? Yeah. I'm not sure. I saw it on the Carl Pilkington. Idiot. Why should I?
46: No Such Thing As An Apostle Called Scrotum, 2015-02-07 · listen
Then in 1870, suddenly we found these... We started mining in South Africa, and it was full of diamonds. The market was suddenly deluged. De Beers, who was the British company who was running the market at that time, thought, well, we can't let the market be deluged, because otherwise we'll devalue the price of diamonds. So they've basically been controlling the price. They're not even that rare.
287: No Such Thing As Pets In Heaven, 2019-09-20 · listen
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