The Northern Miner Podcast - episode 127: The year of the lab-created diamond ft Paul Zimnisky

Paul Zimnisky

This episode features an in-depth interview with independent diamond analyst and consultant Paul Zimnisky on the rise this year of laboratory-created diamonds and their effect on the retail diamond market as well as the prospects of traditional miners of natural diamonds.

In the interview, Paul and Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming also take a look at some of Paul’s stock-market investments in the diamond-mining sector including Mountain Province Diamonds.

Paul is reached via Skype in the New York City region.

The episode also begins a month-long series of promoted-content “Mining Minute” segments with Cobalt 27 Capital chairman, CEO and founder Anthony Milewski talking about the electric-vehicle revolution and its relation to cobalt consumption.

Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. Chairman and CEO Anthony Milewski at the company’s Rotterdam cobalt warehouse in January 2018. Photo Credit: Cobalt 27 Capital Corp.

Cobalt 27 Capital chairman and CEO Anthony Milewski at the company’s Rotterdam cobalt warehouse in January 2018. Photo Credit: Cobalt 27 Capital.

Terry McKague

We also have the sixth in our series of “Sponsor Spotlight” promoted-content segments: brief interviews with key personnel from the top sponsors of the Progressive Mine Forum. This episode has BTI Breaker technologies director of sales for North America/International Terry McKague giving a profile of BTI’s business and talking about its evolving remote-operation technology.

This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca).