Two Canadian diamond projects to see first production this quarter

Canada has two diamond projects that are expected to start first production during the current quarter, with De Beers Canada’s Gahcho Kué project, in the Northwest Territories, making commissioning progress and Stornoway Diamond Corp starting with ore processing at the Renard project, in Quebec. TSX-listed Stornoway on Friday announced that it had started the processing ramp up to 2.16-million tonnes within nine months at 78% plant utilisation, ahead of schedule.