La guerra de los diamantes | La fiebre de los...

Es 1914 y el monopolio de De Beers está bajo amenaza. Se han descubierto diamantes en la desolada costa de la colonia África del Sudoeste Alemana.En De Beers contratan a un ambicioso experto en diamantes llamado Ernest Oppenheimer y le ordenan dirigirse a la playa y evaluar la am ...  Show more

Estamos en 1940 y el mundo está en guerra. Los Aliados y las potencias del Eje luchan por asegurarse el suministro de los diamantes industriales necesarios para fabricar en serie sus tanques, aviones y submarinos.Pero cuando la Casa Blanca exige a De Beers que le entregue el sumi ...  Show more

It’s 1869 and diamonds have been found in Cape Colony. 

Now, diamond hunters from across the world are heading to this remote British outpost in southern Africa, seeking a glittering fortune.

And among them are two wide-eyed hopefuls: streetwise Barney Barnato ...

It’s 1914 and De Beers’s monopoly is under threat. Diamonds have been discovered on the desolate coast of the German colony of South West Africa.

So it hired an ambitious diamond expert named Ernest Oppenheimer and gave him his orders: head to the beach and assess the th ...

It’s the late 1990s and rebel armies in Angola, Sierra Leone and Congo are bankrolling campaigns of mass murder and terror with diamonds. Now, after years of turning a blind eye, the diamond-buying public is starting to notice the bloodshed. 

But as the issue of so- ...

It’s 1966 and De Beers is about to abandon its eleven-year search for diamonds in Botswana. But the geologist behind the search is far from ready to pack up his tools.

And De Beers isn’t the only one searching for gemstones. Soon, a major diamond find in Australia will l ...