Ekati Diamond Mine is getting a $115 million loan from the Canadian government to continue operations at the mine and protect jobs, its owner announced Thursday, CBC.ca reported. Jeremy King, CEO of Australia-based Burgundy Diamond Mines, which owns Ekati, said his company was working in the background with the government of the Northwest Territories and came close to shutting the mine down "weeks ago." "We were in a very bleak, or stark, scenario," he said. "It was either this line or we were looking at bankruptcy and shutting the mine down," he said.
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The UK Government is unlikely to see most of the £148m it is owed by a faulty PPE supplier linked to Baroness Michelle Mone after the company was wound up, BBC.com reported. PPE Medpro, a consortium run by Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman, was placed into liquidation at the Insolvency and Companies Court on Thursday. It follows a High Court ruling in October, which found that the firm breached a contract to supply 25 million surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic. PPE Medpro filed for administration in September, a day before the order to pay.
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