Episode 127: The year of the lab-created diamond ft 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. 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 teleremote-operation technology. This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca). RELATED LINKS: Paul Zimnisky website: www.paulzimnisky.com/ Article: "2018: The Year of the Lab-created Diamond" by Paul Zimnisky www.paulzimnisky.com/the-year-of-the-lab-created-diamond The Northern Miner Podcast - Episode 109: Diamond outlook brightens ft Paul Zimnisky and SRK's Hetman & Jakubec https://soundcloud.com/northern-miner/episode-109-diamond-outlook-brightens-ft-paul-zimnisky-and-srks-hetman-jakubec Music Credits: "Miami Nights - Main Theme" and "Hiding Your Reality" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/