Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company | South African company | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Barnato

• In Barney Barnato
  …other companies to form the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company, which, along with the Compagnie Française des Mines de Diamant du Cap, seriously challenged Cecil Rhodes’s De Beers Mining Company (see De Beers S.A.).
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Rhodes

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  In Cecil Rhodes: Early struggles and financial successes
  …he set about acquiring the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company, which was mainly controlled by Barney Barnato. A furious competition to buy up shares ended in Rhodes’s favour in 1888, and Barnato agreed to merge his company with Rhodes’s company, forming De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. However, several minor shareholders…
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