RE: Why?12 Jan 2017 11:27
How is the company hostage to one country? You may have missed the fact that De Beers is part of anglo, total sales of diamonds for 2016 was nearly 6 billion dollars. New, and biggest opening for a generation, mine just opened in canada. Dividend payment is same situation for all the other miners, was suspended in challenging trading conditions. You also forgot to mention that anglo has sold (planning to sell) the less profitable mines (iron ore) to concentrate on the high profitable platinum and copper.