EXCELLENT: More Jewish problems: Botswana – Diamond mines hit – Buyers blocked! – My Comments
[The Jewish Oppenheimer scum own De Beers – that's a big Jewish global scam. They, single-handedly create and maintain a fake value for diamonds. They operate in neighbouring Botswana. The diamonds are the KEY means of income there. Now their buyers are “locked out” of the country. The blacks are ever more dependent in Africa on selling raw materials because they have destroyed farming and other industries that whites used to run. So I'm loving the idiocy. De Beers is owned by the Jewish Oppenheimer family scum. They also own Anglo American.
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div>Jews are only here for the money. If the money goes, they'll f*ck off out of Africa. Jan]
De Beers diamond buyers locked out in Botswana travel ban
Miner grappling with how to conduct diamond sales when key customers are blocked from travelling.
Thomas Biesheuvel and Mbongeni Mguni, Bloomberg / 18 March 2020 07:11
De Beers finds some of its most valuable diamonds on the Atlantic Ocean seabed. Image: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
De Beers, already grappling with a prolonged industry crisis exacerbated by the coronavirus outbreak, now has another headache to contend with: how to conduct diamond sales when key customers are blocked from travelling?
Botswana, where De Beers conducts its 10 sales each year, on Monday announced a travel ban on 18 high-risk countries as part of an array of measures to protect itself from the pandemic. The list included Belgium, India and China, which are home to many of the world’s leading diamond dealers.
Botswana is the second-biggest diamond producer, just behind Russia, but its role in the global industry is amplified by its relationship with De Beers. The one-time monopoly sorts and sells all its stones in the country, including those mined elsewhere.
At the diamond sales, known as “sights,” representatives from De Beers’s 80-odd customers fly to Botswana for about a week, where they inspect and purchase stones. The next sale is scheduled to start on March 30.
“Our intention remains to hold the sight, in line with the desire for it go ahead expressed by customers, but we are developing a suite of contingency plans in the event that it is not possible to hold the sight in the usual manner,” De Beers said in a statement.
De Beers is set to hold an emergency meeting with the government next week, the Botswana Guardian newspaper reported, citing Minerals Minister Lefoko Moagi.
De Beers could look at options such as holding a “blind” sight, where buyers don’t get to look at the goods they’re purchasing. De Beers customers could also send local staff to the sale, as many have representatives in either Botswana or South Africa.
The outbreak has come at a terrible time for an industry already reeling from a disastrous 2019. De Beers made its smallest profit in more than a decade last year after a glut of rough and polished stones destroyed margins for the industry’s crucial middlemen who cut, polish and trade them.
Source: https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news-fast-news/de-beers-diamond-buyers-locked-out-in-botswana-travel-ban/