De Beers

I just watched a video about De Beers. They do many things to keep us thinking that diamonds are rare stones. When there are too many diamond mines, De Beers buys the land off of them so that there aren't too many diamonds in the market. They do this because if there are too many mines than De Beers control might be threatened. De Beers also make sure that there aren't too many diamonds in the market by dumping some of the diamonds in the sea. This happened during the depression when the market was so bad. Years ago though the river dried up and a lot of people went there and picked up lots of diamonds. De Beers payed 350 million dollars to buy them out. When an investigator did some investigation on that subject he saw that De Beers had many ways to keep up the illusion that diamonds were rare. All over Africa diamonds are found. There aren't many big ones but there are plenty of 10-15 karat ones. Movies support De Beers because they made a film in the 1950s that was inspired by them.

Blood Diamonds

it was all a dream