Anglo eyes Oppenheimer's De Beers stake

Anglo already owns 45 percent of De Beers, with the Botswana Government holding the balance of 15 percent.

According the newspaper report, Anglo's big institutional shareholders have been exerting pressure on the company to make De Beers part of its core operations: De Beers is currently a private company. There had been talk of De Beers refloating (it used to be a public company), but it appears that the preferred option would be for Anglo to buy out the Oppenheimer stake which is probably worth upwards of $3 billion.