Requests for information about the Diamond Route should be directed to either Duncan.MacFadyen@eoson.co.za or to tom.tweedy@debeersgroup.com .
The Diamond Route is a special idea, larger than a single site and wider than a series of places. It is multifaceted in the many elements of life it encapsulates and fertile in the opportunities it presents for enquiring minds; be those the minds of academics, journalists or children.
The Diamond Route properties belong to De Beers and are managed by the Company’s Ecology Division. Certain sites are owned by EO & Son, the shareholder in De Beers. The Diamond Route acts as the glue that binds together the physical and intellectual ecological and other property based assets of the sponsors, just one example of the ‘good diamonds do’.
Some properties are effectively public (the Big Hole Experience in Kimberley), some are in fact regional in scope (and in Namaqualand in transition from being Company owned to being publically accessible sites with accommodation not owned or managed by the companies that fund and underwrite the Diamond Route), such as the Coast of Diamonds. There are sites that are conserved primarily for research purposes and therefore have restricted access to lessen the ‘footprint of man and machine’, such as at Benfontein Nature Reserve. This internet site will indicate the matters of interest relevant to each Diamond Route property.
Journalists are most welcome to approach the contacts given above for further information, and to use the resources offered with due respect to the rights of the publishers where articles have been stored under ‘News Articles’.
The global media practice of De Beers and its procurement departments is to not support advertorial , either directly or indirectly. We will not provide any supplier or other stakeholder lists to any third party to fund advertorials or for any other purpose. |
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