Brazil Joins Race to Loosen China’s Grip on Rare Earths Industry
June 23rd, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on Brazil’s potential to loosen China’s grip on rare earths industry: Mining giant Brazil has big ambitions to build a rare earths industry as Western economies push to secure the metals needed for magnets used in green energy and defence and break China’s dominance of the supply chain. Working to its […]
Read more »Komatsu Opens Central Asia Hub to Tap Mining Rush for EV Metals
June 23rd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on growing industry interest in Central Asia’s energy transition metal potential: Komatsu will facilitate deliveries of mining equipment across Central Asia through a new logistics hub in Kazakhstan, with an eye on the region’s reserves of key electric vehicle materials like nickel and lithium. The Japanese heavy machinery maker recently […]
Read more »The Deadly Mining Complex Powering the EV Revolution
June 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how nickel is pouring into the supply chain from an Indonesian industrial park with a history of fatal accidents: Early in the morning last Christmas Eve, Chinese and Indonesian workers prepared for a maintenance operation at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park. A complex of factories, smelters and power plants on […]
Read more »Clothing Brand Busayo PutS Nigerian-Influenced Style at Center Stage
June 23rd, 2024
African fashion has been at the center of cultural expression within the continent and its diaspora, but has also evolved into a massive business that oozes identity. Renowned Nigerian American fashion designer Busayo Olupona had a vision to create a contemporary fashion brand that would celebrate the Nigerian diaspora which has now grown into the […]
Read more »The Design-Obsessed Indian Scooter Company With Global Ambitions
June 23rd, 2024
Via Rest of World, a report on Ather Energy, which has earned a place in India’s crowded EV market by designing to meet local needs: Ather Energy, one of the first electric scooter startups in India, dedicated its first five years to research and design innovation to suit local needs. The company has filed 212 […]
Read more »Eni Taps Advisers to Sell €1 Billion Ivory Coast Stake
June 21st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Eni’s plans to sell part of its Ivory Coast stake: Italian energy firm could sell up to 30% holding in operations Eni made biggest ever hydrocarbon discovery in Ivory Coast Eni SpA is planning to sell a stake in its Ivory Coast exploration operations in a potential deal that could be […]
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.