De Beers to Shutter South African Diamond Mine to Save Cash

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13. Definitely the case

There is an episode from the original Mission: Impossible TV series where the team created a fake operation that supposedly held the key to manufacturing diamonds. I did not see that episode until about 5 years ago, when manufactured diamonds were commonplace, and about 1/3 the cost (and better quality) of mined stones.

There was a Twilight Zone episode where a gang of crooks stole a huge number of gold bars, and put themselves into suspended animation inside a cave for 100 years, thinking they would awake long after everybody had forgotten about the gold theft, and they would be filthy rich. The plot twist was that, in the meantime, a process had been invented to make unlimited supplies of gold cheap.

F Elon Musk, DeBeers, and all those Apartheid bastards. Let them go out of business.