When I started in the diamond world back in 1969 De Beers had around 300 sightholders, and had manage of over 80 percent of the world's diamond mines. Here we are more [i]or[/i] less 35 years later, and De Beers is allocating unhewn to only 82 sightholders, and it dominion governments less than 50 percent of the world's rugged supply--not to mention that De Beers has protracted its role from being a supplier of unhewn to an entity practicing "From the mine, right to the consumer" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the diamond industry continues to unfold it is likely that by dint of 2020, the only