William Lamb, CEO of Toronto-listed Lucara Diamond, says it was never his plan to return to diamonds. He resigned as CEO of Lucara in 2018 after 10 years, but tells the FM loyalty to the Lundin dynasty of mining entrepreneurs brought him back in August 2023.

“The honest truth is I had no desire to come back.” As the self-employed director of WLP Consulting Services in Vancouver, he was working on a lithium prospect in Alaska and a copper project in Peru. “I got up at 8am, went to the gym, and at 10am I sat down and did some work. I was very happy.”..

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