India Finds Major Lithium Deposit: Making A Major Player In Batteries and EVs
February 13th, 2023
Via Quartz, news of an exciting lithium find in India, which immediately pushes India into the world’s top five national lithium reserves: The Indian government announced on Thursday, Feb. 10 that 5.9 million tons of lithium, a crucial mineral for the manufacturing of electric vehicles and solar panels, had been discovered in the provinces of Jammu and […]
Read more »Sudan: All Roads Lead to Khartoum
February 13th, 2023
Via Middle East Eye, a report on how Israeli and Russian delegations have been to Sudan in the last week, with US and EU envoys also present: Everyone is coming to Khartoum. At the end of last week, an Israeli delegation that included Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met Sudan’s ruling General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan as part of what the Israelis […]
Read more »DRC: A Favorable Destination For Manufacturing of Sustainable Battery Materials
February 12th, 2023
Via BloombergNEF, a report on how producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials. At the behest […]
Read more »Zambia Has More Than Copper, Offers Unexplored Potential
February 12th, 2023
Via The Africa Report, a look at Zambia’s unexplored potential: With billions of dollars worth of African gas, gold, copper and cobalt to hit the markets in 2022, industry players are focused on the next big deals. The election of a new government in Zambia in August 2021 has led to optimism that the country […]
Read more »China, US Deals and Robots Headline Saudi Arabia’s LEAP Tech Event
February 12th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on Saudi Arabia’s second LEAP technology event: Saudi Arabia’s second LEAP technology event on Tuesday saw a host of landmark partnerships and billion-dollar investments take place with major Chinese and US companies, in line with the last phase of the country’s national strategy for digital transformation. On the first day of the […]
Read more »Gabon: Potential Raw Material Export Ban To Activate Value Chain Development
February 11th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an exclusive report on Gabon’s potential consideration of a raw material export ban as a means to activate their value chain development: Bans on the export of raw materials are a possible tool for Gabon as it seeks progress towards higher value-added trade, minister for investment promotion and public-private partnerships […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.