Archive for August, 2023

How China Is Winning The Race For Africa’s Lithium
August 1st, 2023

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how China – which already dominates processing of lithium for use in electric vehicle batteries 0 is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling in Africa: The settlement of Uis in a remote part of Namibia seems an unlikely hotspot for a mineral cold war […]

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China’s Overseas Investment in Metals and Mining Set To Hit Record
August 1st, 2023

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on how China’s overseas investment in metals and mining is set to hit a record Beijing as intensifies efforts to lock up access to renewable energy supply chain: China’s metals and mining investments overseas are on track to hit a record this year, new data shows, as the […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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