cobalt

No. 222: Minerals, Electric Vehicles, and AI

Jul 25, 2019

Energy & Resources, Technology

andreessen horowitz, artificial intelligence, cobalt, Elon Musk, kai fu lee, Marc Andreessen, Ray Kurzweil

Andreessen Horowitz posted this interesting conversation on cobalt – the mineral helping power our phones, electric vehicles, and more. The conversation got me thinking about a piece I wrote back in 2015 (time flies!) on Jean-Yves Ollivier, Marc Andreessen, and the common interests they share in minerals that power the global economy. There has been…
No. 163: 3AMReads: $1B Cobalt project | South Africa’s Radical Economic Transformation | What is US-Africa Policy?

Jun 7, 2017

Africa, Economics, Notes

Africa, China, chris coons, cobalt, donald trump africa, eurasian resources group, radical economic transformation, recession, South Africa, zuma

Bloomberg: Owner of $1 Billion Cobalt Project Says Rally Is Far From Over Eurasian Resources Group has a pretty massive cobalt mining project in the works in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The company stands to realize a nice return on investment at the rate cobalt prices are skyrocketing. They jumped 71% last year and…