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Robinson and Barnato had become enemies after clashes in the Cape Province Assembly in Cape Town, to which both had been elected in 1881. Robinson formed the Standard Company to expand his diamond interests and Barney and his brother Harry set up the Barnato Company. Both of these groups concentrated on the New Rush pit in Kimberley, but Rhodes’s diamond interests were concentrated on the nearby De Beers mine and he incorporated De Beers Mining in 1881 to hold these interests. He also managed to merge the interests with those of the Stow, English and Compton company at the De Beers diggings.