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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. | 
