How a Battery Metals Supply Glut is Deepening China’s Dominance
Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how crashing metals prices are making it hard for Western miners to justify new investments in the minerals needed for clean energy: An avalanche of cheap [...]
Paving The Way: DRC’s ‘Contract of the Century’ with China
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an article on the DRC’s $7B agreement with China for infrastructure: Félix Tshisekedi couldn’t have wished for anything better to launch his second term as [...]
Bitcoin Mining Was Booming in Kazakhstan. Then It Was Gone.
Via MIT Technology Review, an article on how bitcoin miners initially flocked to Kazakhstan to take advantage of cheap energy and loose regulation. Now most of them have moved on, leaving little [...]
Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline: What it Means for West Africa
Courtesy of Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline and what it means for nations such as Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger: The aim of the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline – set [...]
Fastest Growing Countries for Software Development: Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Pakistan
Via Rest of World, a look at new data showing a rising tide of coders in Bangladesh and Nigeria: GitHub has released new data tracking developer accounts by country. Year over year, the data shows [...]
Namibia’s Progressive Leap Towards a Green Hydrogen Economy
Via Energy, Capital, and Power, a report on Namibia’s green hydrogen ambitions: In the past 12 months, Namibia has seen several updates to its leading hydrogen projects, as well as launched new [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.