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Private equity firm KKR plans to create diamond giant from BHP, Rio units

London Stock Exchange | April 15, 2012 | 11:39 pm Europe Diamond

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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. wants to buy the diamond mining operations of BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) and Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) and merge them to create a challenger to the two diamond industry leaders De Beers and…