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Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has called a band council meeting for Thursday to discuss a blockade on a winter road leading to a De Beers diamond mine.

De Beers Canada says a group of residents of the remote northern Ontario reserve set up the blockade on Monday on a road the company uses to move in supplies like fuel, machine parts and equipment that would be too heavy to fly in.

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De Beers and Attawapiskat band officials met with the blockaders on Tuesday afternoon.

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network reports one of the band officials involved in talks is Danny Metatawabin, who was Spence’s spokesman during her recent hunger protest in Ottawa.

De Beers spokesman Tom Ormsby says the blockade has not yet impacted the mine’s operations, but has forced De Beers to cease operations on the road.

The mine — 90 kilometres west of Attawapiskat — has a large aboriginal workforce, but First Nation has complained that its share of the bounty from the mine isn’t getting back to the community.