Join Star Diamond Corp's SVP of Corp. Development for a dive into the diamond market. From extraction to production and sale, learn about how the process differs from precious metals and what investors should be on the lookout for in a project.
SVP, Corporate Development at Star Diamond Corporation
Mr. Read is a diamond exploration geologist with over 39 years of international experience. After
graduating in geology and geochemistry from the University of Cape Town (BSc. Hons., 1983), Mr. Read
joined De Beers in South Africa. During his 12 years with De Beers, he worked on a wide spectrum of
diamond exploration projects in Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, Mali and
Tanzania), in addition to Canada and Brazil. Mr. Read came to Canada as a Landed Immigrant in early
1997 and worked as a consultant for several companies in Alberta, NWT, Nunavut, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, in addition to projects in Greenland and Brazil. Mr. Read commenced
with Star Diamond Corporation in late 2003 and since that time has led the team responsible for the
exploration and evaluation of the Fort a la Corne kimberlites. During his career of almost four decades,
he has encountered and solved many of the diverse problems associated with diamond exploration and
evaluation programs. Mr. Read is a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada and a Professional
Geoscientist in the Provinces of Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Mr. Read became a citizen of
Canada in September 2005.
Replay transcript excerpt
Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where in the world you're standing in from today. Looks like we have a relatively international audience. So thanks everyone for joining us. Today, we'll be going through a deep dive on the diamond market, or at least as deep a dive as we're able to do in part of an hour. But I'm joined today by Star Diamond's Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, and with 39 or 40 years experience, a bona fide diamond expert, George Reid. It's great to be with you today, George. Thank you. Nice to be here. I hope I can share some knowledge with you that I've accumulated over 4 decades in this business. It's been a wild ride. No, I'm sure you can. That's what I'm excited about. I'll do a couple of brief housekeeping notes before we get into the protein of today's discussion. Today's event will be recorded and the replay will be made available later this afternoon. So feel free to share it once it pops into your email inbox. But also I'll let you know, this is an interactive event. Only the first half is gonna be my questions to George. Following that, we'll take audience questions regarding the diamond market, how it applies to Star Diamonds project. So if you'd like to ask George a question, there's a chat button on the bottom right-hand side of your screen, looks like a little chat bubble. Press it and you'll be able to ask questions at any time during the presentation. If there's a question that George or we're just unable to get to today for whatever reason, still pose it, and I'll make sure that it gets to the Stardiamond team soon as possible so that they can get back to you as soon as possible. Thanks for bearing with me during this housekeeping, but let's get right into the meat of this discussion. So I'll ...
