The suspension of operations at the Point Lake site will see several hundred employees and contractors laid off.

Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd. laid off “several hundred” workers after halting part of its Ekati operations in northern Canada, ...

Some Ekati workers were reportedly instructed not to travel to the remote site in Canada’s Northwest Territories this week, ...

Burgundy Diamond Mines says it’s laid off some of its employees and contractors and has temporarily stopped open pit mining ...

Australian miner Burgundy Diamond Mines laid off several hundred employees and contractors and suspended operations at its Point Lake diamond mine in Canada due to record-low diamond prices, a company ...

Burgundy Diamond Mines has blamed weak prices for the layoffs at the Ekati mine in Canada’s Arctic Circle, which was acquired ...

Cheap man-made diamonds are making life harder for miners, flooding the market with gems nearly indistinguishable from ...

The Gahcho Kué mine. De Beers, the company whose name has been synonymous with the diamond trade since its founding in South Africa by Cecil Rhodes in the 1880s, is opening the world’s largest ...

In 2005, even before the Jericho mine opened in the adjoining territory of Nunavut, Canada's first two big diamond mines in the Northwest Territories unearthed 15 pounds of the gemstones, worth $4 ...

It was taking Rio Tinto staff to the Diavik Diamond Mine, about 186 miles northeast of Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The Air Force, Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded as ...

Stornoway Diamonds is investigating the potential for openpit mining at the Renard 4 and nearby Renard 9 kimberlites to supply additional ore feed earlier in the diamond mine’s life.