The Oppenheimers Swapping gems for cash
宝石 交易
What next for South Africa s foremost mining family?
南非最有影响力的矿业家族,下一步会如何?
MOST people would be overjoyed to pocket $5.1 billion.
在大多数人眼里,获得51亿美元是一件高兴的事。
But Nicky Oppenheimer, the chairman of De Beers, said that it was with a heavy heart thathis family had decided to sell its remaining 40% stake in the world s biggest diamond minerto Anglo American, a mining behemoth.
然而对于尼克 奥本海默而言,这位德比尔斯主席却不那么轻松。其家族海默家族已经决定向矿业巨头英美资源集团出售剩余的40%德比尔斯的股份。
The deal marks the end of an era for South Africa s foremost mining dynasty.
而这次交易也标志这个南非矿业巨头辉煌时代的结束。
The Oppenheimers have been in the diamond business for more than a century, includingover 80 years with De Beers.
海默家族涉足钻石业已超过一个世纪,其中80年在德比尔斯工作。
Nicky s grandfather Ernest settled in South Africa in 1902, having been posted to thediamond-boom town of Kimberley at the age of 22 as an agent for a London-based firm ofgem traders.
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