Myanmar Rebels Seize Rare-Earth Mining Hubs, Threatening Supply Chains
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on how rebel activity in Myanmar, the world’s 3rd-largest rare earths producer, is disrupting exports to neighboring China: Armed rebels are taking control of key [...]
Mongolia’s New Coal Highway To China
Via Dialogue. Earth, a report on Mongolia’s efforts to increase coal exports to a decarbonising China, leaving pastoralists in Ömnögovi province braced for the potential damage: [...]
Southeast Asia Expands Trade As Neutral Hub In Divided World
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at Southeast Asia’s efforts to position itself as a neutral trade hub in a divided world: Southeast Asia is rapidly expanding its global trade by pursuing diplomatic [...]
Brazil Hopes to Make the Amazon a Model for a Green Economy
Via Yale e360, an article on Brazil’s initiatives to promote a “bioeconomy” in the Amazon that protects biodiversity and helps Indigenous residents. The goal: To get governments to commit [...]
Angola: Caught In Tug-of-War Between China, US
Via Deutsche Welle, a report on how – with rich oil and gas reserves, along with a strategic position for natural resource extraction from Africa’s interior – make Angola a focal [...]
Global Cobalt Reserves 2023
Via Mining Visuals, a look at at where the world’s cobalt reserves are located: Cobalt is a critical mineral, essential for the production of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles [...]

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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.