Congo, Coltan, Conflict: How the Digital Boom Fueled Conflict in Congo
February 7th, 2021
Via McGill’s International Review, an article on how industry’s search for coltan has led to conflict in the DRC: The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, owing to a tremendous deposit of untapped raw minerals. However, as Congo emerges from a brutal history […]
Read more »Massive Congolese Copper Play
October 31st, 2019
Via Ozy, a look at Kamoa-Kakula, a huge untapped copper deposit worth at least $10 billion: When Felix Tshisekedi, the new president of the Democratic Republic of Congo visited Washington, D.C., in April, the mining billionaire Robert Friedland was waiting in a room at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel to greet him. Also waiting were the U.S. ambassador to Congo and Sun Yufeng, […]
Read more »DRC: Blood, Sweat, and Batteries
August 26th, 2018
Courtesy of Fortune, a detailed look at the Democratic Republic of Congo’s involvement in the global cobalt supply chain: MOST OF HIS NEIGHBORS are still sound asleep at 5 a.m., when Lukasa rises to begin his 12-hour workday. The slender 15-year-old, with an oval face and piercing stare, slips out of his family’s mud-brick home before […]
Read more »Virugna Energy: Power Plants That May Save a Park, and Aid a Country
September 2nd, 2017
Courtesy of the New York Times, a detailed look at the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park where there is hope that hydroelectric plants will help create jobs and reduce the economic incentive to encroach on habitat needed by gorillas and other wildlife: On the verdant savanna of Virunga National Park, a herd of […]
Read more »Despite Violence, Canadian Mining Firms Bullish On DRC
March 20th, 2017
Via the Globe and Mail, a report on Canadian mining interest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): The Democratic Republic of the Congo, the vast war-torn country in the heart of Africa, has fascinated the world’s miners for decades. Its reputation for violence and corruption has long deterred most investors – but a growing […]
Read more »The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Mineral Wealth
March 27th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at the DRC’s mineral wealth: For years, the Congo’s vast, insecure and mineral-rich geography has attracted the interests of its central and southern neighbors. The government is seated more than 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the eastern and southern provinces that contain extensive mineral deposits and potential […]
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.