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, ...

Ekati’s Misery underground diamond mine, located roughly 2 km from Point Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories will continue ...

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

Burgundy Diamond Mines Ltd. laid off “several hundred” workers after halting part of its Ekati operations in northern Canada, adding another blow to the country’s struggling diamond mining industry.

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 ...

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

Newmont Corp. says the three drillers who have been trapped for more than 60 hours in the Red Chris mine in northern B.C.

Colorado-headquartered Newmont is the 70-per-cent owner and operator, along with B.C.’s Imperial Metals Corp., which holds a ...

Canadian private company Arctic Blue Diamonds has secured an 89.7% controlling interest in the WO diamond project, home to one of the country’s biggest undeveloped diamond-bearing kimberlites, DO27.

Arctic Blue Diamonds has acquired an 89.7% interest in the WO Diamond Project, which includes the high-grade DO27 kimberlite.