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DIAMOND MINES WILL CONTINUE TO BE PUBLICLY OWNED
 
ODERVELD - LEUCHTFEUER
 
Chancelry, August 20, 5648:  In an interview with Erica Kleinfelder, the Bundeskanzlerin, ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER asked if the rumors were true that our diamond mines would be privatized so the wealth could be shared, and she replied:
 

It is true that there are quite a few members of the Bundestag who want that to happen and some investment banking interests are hoping it will and speaking out in support of the idea as sound policy.
 
Marcks Feiereisen Enterprises is at the heart of international marketing of our diamonds for industrial use and as jewelry.  Probably rivals DHL as our commercial giant. Marcks Feiereisen is not wanting to get into mining.
 
Steigerwald Group is our single largest diamond cutting  operation and Muselbergen Tol and Sterben has long been our largest machine tool maker using diamonds. They too are very profitable but do not to do the mining themselves.
 
So do the advocates want to bring in foreign diamond miners? Or recruit silver miners? Maybe, but what they really want to do is start strip mining our diamond deposits. This is a lot cheaper than the underground mining that is done by Nationales Bergbaukonlomerat, our state owned mining conglomerate, which generally makes a slight profit.
 
Our state owned facility is protecting our environment by having diamond mining in the Bundesrepublik exclusively done as underground mining.  If there were private corporations willing to takeover our underground miming or any portion of it we likely would allow it provided we could reclaim it if they went belly up.
 
But it is those who want to introduce strip mining who are pretending they are capitalist ideologues who are pushing this, and we are not going to buy it.