Katanga Mining Limited (KAT)

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson Switchboard: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson Switchboard: Hold for a moment please while I connect you to the LaPaz Bolivia regional office.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Hello?
Joey: This is Joey. Joey ex King of DRC... do you remember me?
Hijacker Spokesperson: After that ask-reaming we shareholders took from Glencore on Katanga because of you I have been trying hard to forget you and your perpetual stink for the last 2 years. So what trouble are you in now that you need Israeli brains and firepower to get you out of?
Joey: Well it appears my good man that there is a bit of a little misunderstanding at my bank errrr... at the BGFI Bank I mean. It seems some misplaced money got wired to bunch of my relatives and close friends unbeknownst to me. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59321755
Hijacker Spokesperson: Say no more... I know how you operate. When do you need to be airlifted out?
Joey: Well, there is no rush but I was thinking tomorrow around 5:00AM-ish would be nice.
Hijacker Spokesperson: It is going to cost you 20 million dollars and a maximum restriction of 100 kilograms in carry-on luggage/strongboxes for you. And no groupie whores accompanying you this time.
Joey: Hmmmm. Let's make that restriction 200 kilograms of carry-on luggage/strongboxes, with only one little bitty whore and I will pay you $25 million.
Hijacker Spokesperson: OK, see you at 5:00AM in the airport same private hanger as the last time you fled the country. And no checks... I accept only cash.
Joey: OK, I will bring the cash. And please not a word to anyone about this sudden vacation trip to wonderful Bolivia. Do they have toilets in Bolivia?
Hijacker Spokesperson: 10-4 and yes they have toilets in Bolivia.

Click bzzz.......

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Wednesday, 07/17/19 10:46:26 AM
Re: None 0
Post # of 457

Ring Ring
Hijacker Spokesperson Switchboard: Hello, this is DRC Hijacker's Emporium the main headquarters... please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. What can I do for you?
Joey: Let me talk to the agent code-named Dan.
Hijacker Spokesperson Switchboard: Hold for a moment please while I connect you to the LaPaz Bolivia regional office.
Hijacker Spokesperson:] Hello?
Joey: This is Joey.
Hijacker Spokesperson: yeah, what's up?
Joey: Did you read that the DRC Army is moving in full force to control all the thieving bug-infested Ebola-carrying artisanal miners? click here
Hijacker Spokesperson: Yeah, what's the beef?
Joey: What's the beef you ask? If this new Law & Order program is allowed to continue then all the old well-established reputable legal miners will start paying their taxes directly to the DRC Treasury by-passing my goons, schools will be rebuilt by the new government, local governments will be re-organized/re-vitalized, women/kids will no longer be raped/beaten, people will get decent medical attention from a better-funded government by the do-gooders and my core group including me will be completely f**king broke within 3 months... that's the beef.
Hijacker Spokesperson: ... and what did you expect to happen once you and your ass-kissing bench-warmer candidate Emmanuel were voted out of office?
Joey: Well this looks like some kind of new democracy thingie to embolden/support actual citizen people... nobody on our side can survive with that.
Hijacker Spokesperson: Joey, Joey, Joey... you are a dinosaur. Has-beens like you, Mugabe and Zuma are being tossed out on your ears. You should thank Gawd you still have a head on your shoulders and get out while you can. Maybe you can ask Trump for asylum... he would like you. You could probably work for him as Deputy Secretary at HUD (Housing & Urban Development).
Joey: I am going to have a nervous breakdown.

Click bzzz.......

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear Dan Gertler, now that Trump koshered you back to life
https://www.mining.com/trump-eased-sanctions-on-mining-tycoon-dan-gertler-before-leaving/
... could you possibly step in on our behalf with Glencore and retrieve some small amount of our colon so that we reamed KAT shareholders can once again go to the toilet like normal human beings?

Thanks

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Never was_a cobalt-free Tesla_battery, but_everyone bought_it hook,_line &sinker
https://insideevs.com/news/429771/tesla-glencore-cobalt-deal/

Glencore fucked us good.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Tesla plans_to use_Glencore DRC cobalt_in new Gigafactories
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/tesla-glencore-cobalt-gigafactory.html

... and of course this great announcement would come out now... right after we shareholders got "Glencored/sodomized" out of our shares.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_SNL (Saturday_Night Live),_yes you_have my_permission to_use My_post 451
(the Zoom Zoom piece) in a TV skit on your show without reservation on my part as long as Alec Baldwin plays Trump as we agreed.

The Doctor

PS, may I suggest you get Mariano Idelman to play Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Russia_Looks for_Inroads Into_Central Africa_(Part One)
https://jamestown.org/program/russia-looks-for-inroads-into-central-africa-part-one/
Ah yes but of course and more specifically, Russia is looking for new warmer "Inroads" into DRC today... and the same for The Donald who is looking for new warmer Inroads into Venezuela probably next week https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=155211136

The smog/air-pollution in Moscow has cleared up quite amazingly these last two weeks as the shear volume of fossil fuel burning traffic in the capital has fallen off the cliff... I think Putin is seeing the true "cause and effect" of ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) much clearer now. Well good for him as Al Gore would say.

The Doctor

PS, Good article on BMW now projecting their lithium & cobalt needs will increase Sevenfold by 2025
The BMW Group estimates that by 2025 it will need seven times as much lithium as it currently requires.
The company has strategically sought to guarantee access to the raw materials necessary to produce electric mobility, highlighting, for example, a contract signed with the Chinese company Ganfeng Lithium for 540 million euros. The growth of electric mobility implies an increase in the demand for the raw materials necessary to supply it, mainly lithium and cobalt.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

7-11 Indians (not woo-woo) Indians_can see_their hand_in front_of their_face
in Delhi now that most fossil fuel burning vehicles/jitneys are off the road
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-52396658/coronavirus-smog-pollution-in-delhi-vanishes
Demand for lithium-cobalt battery EVs is going to skyrocket now that the natives have tasted clean air... especially with the natives that have never tasted/seen clean air before.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Zoom Zoom... Zoom Zoom
Zoom Vladimir: Privet Donald, congratulations on you and Mitch sweet talking $2.2 trillion out of the gullible americanski taxpayers. Are you going to pay off your overdue loans to Deutsche Bank (and ultimately back to us Russkies) now?
Zoom Jinping: Vlad, we are here on Zoom to talk about happy things... you can talk to the Donald about his debts to you later on after we agree on how to divide up the DRC.
Zoom Donald: This Zoom thing is a bitch to operate... am I supposed to push this big red button in the middle of my desk at the White House for you two to hear me now?
Zoom MBS: Why in the focksake am I here? I got enough work to do right here in Saudi Arabia... and besides I don't need any more Africans from DRC. I got more than enough of them already chained up working down in the basement.
Zoom Vladimir: Cool it raghead... you're here in case the ghost of Jamal Khashoggi shows up on this Zoom conference call and we need someone to "entertain" him for an hour.
Zoom Jinping: Vlad! MBS! Settle down, settle down you two, this is not a Zoom conference to hammer out crude oil production quotas... that Zoom conference call is for next Monday.
Zoom Vladimir: OK OK, listen Donald, we and China (or Cheyna as you say) pulled out of Venezuela click here to give you a free shot at that blowhard tinpot whacko Maduro. We need you to now reduce your embassy staff and the number of CIA spooks in DRC in order to grease the skids for our upcoming land/power grab on some key minerals including cobalt and then copper so we can properly sheet on that midget Pinera (and those old-geezer legacy Pinochet fascists) in Chile which Jinping will happily supervise.
Zoom Donald: Ooops, I just pushed the big red button in the middle of my desk. But not to fear for us here, Kellyanne tells me that red button was connected to the missiles aimed at Iran.
Zoom MBS: OMIGOD. I have to hang up and go prep our missiles for launch now.
Zoom Vladimir: Donald, we gave you Venezuela in exchange for the DRC. Do we have a deal or not?
Zoom Jinping: Yeah Donald, I need to know before I hang up on this Zoom call today.
Zoom Donald: Yeah, we got a deal. You two can divide up DRC as you see fit... I've also got plenty of DRC Africans down in my basement/clubs/cotton-fields already. I (ie WE) don't need any more. I just want a 20% discount on all future cobalt shipments to America for our DARPA drone/missiles/killer-robot/shoot-around-a-corner-rifle toys.
Zoom Vladimir: OK, a 20% discount is fine.
Zoom Jinping: Ditto, 20% is acceptable.
Zoom Donald: Then we got another fine wonderful tremendous fabulous deal. Let me push this big red button one more time to celebrate.

Click click

Zoom Bibi (in Israel): Did someone just launch a sheetload of missiles at Iran? WTF... I thought the deal was that I was supposed to get a 60 minute happy-face pre-notification on my TikTok or Twitter-thingie

[~ Blue ~]

KATANGA GOES PRIVATE GLENCORE OFFERS 16 CENTS PER SHARE

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear Anonymous KAT Director
https://www.stockwatch.com/News/Item?bid=Z-C%3aKAT-2893614&symbol=KAT®ion=C
Thank you for your leak on the Special Committee's work to slice our nuts off with the sharpest razor available thus causing the least amount of pain in theory... but the fact remains the Special Committee is pretty much no better at the Olympics of finance than the twisted-up deformed participants in the Special Olympics for paralyzed deformed gimps every 4 years. What happened to the financial estimate pegging the May 2020 sell-out price at C$.28 which was based on Joey staying in power (albeit by a thread still)?

You all know that the chinks in Beijing have amazingly for once finally tasted fresh clean air since March and the 7-11 Indians (not the woo-woo Indians) in Punjab can actually see the Himalayan mountains now, do you actually think fossil fuel burniung cars are going to continue much longer? EVs are coming like gangbusters sooner than you think and they are going to need mountains of cobalt to prevent blowing up and burning the occupants/kids into nicely toasty pretzels. Cobalt is not dead yet and some biggie country is surely licking their chops about taking over DRC next/soon after "follow-the-leader-in-land-grabbing" Trump finishes taking over Venezuela and Iran shortly thereafter. Once Joey and his den of thieves are tossed out this Katanga asset then cobalt is going to go up 10 times overnight.

So surely the KAT directors (before the upcoming ZOOM full-board vote happens) know the C$.16 "offer" is still at least 75% too low (based on Joey remaining in power). Soooo are you going to vote NO when it does finally come down to the brass tacks or are you going to roll over also? I have a feeling you are suffering some anonymous doubts today.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Blue, Nope. I_am just_waiting for_my break_even point
to momentarily pop back up one more time after averaging down this past month and then I am going to bail out. I am done with DRC until Martin Fayulu becomes president... if ever that can happen.

Sorry, I wish I could be more positive for you but this is what happens when we try to do legit/real/modern/honest/rule-of-law business with a bunch of thieving double-dealing crooks/thugs.

The Doctor

[~ Blue ~]

Dr. is it time to load this COBALT giant!?

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Congo_mine closures_would cause_economic and_social crisis,_minister says
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-congo-mining/congo-mine-closures-would-cause-crisis-minister-says-as-cobalt-exports-slump-idUSKBN21Z1Z4

Dear Joey, quick! Swoop in and steal the last $1M still remaining in the Katanga jobsite office petty cash locked strongbox... hurry up, before it is all gone and you're finally broke.

The Doctor

PS, It is a pity you never learned that you simply can't completely kill/bleed the golden goose (who lays golden eggs) if you want to ultimately survive.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Glencore_secures 5-year deal to supply cobalt to Samsung SDI
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/glencore-secures-five-deal-supply-103733476.html

Dear Samsung, tell your sweetheart Posco that we have more cobalt well suited for automobile batteries also.

Ta ta for now,

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

South_Africa court_issues arrest_warrant for_former president_Jacob Zuma
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/3048979/south-africa-court-issues-arrest-warrant-former-president-jacob

Dear Joey, with a little bit of luck you're hopefully next.

The Doctor

PS, It might be a good time to take that trip to Cuba you and your mistresses have been wanting to have. Jacob could show you around and probably introduce you to Nicholas Maduro also. You three will get along just fine.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

So_what if_the Chinese_buy us_before Glencore_can Glen gore us?

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Roger & Dear_Rudy, your DRC_contracts are_hereby cancelled
https://www.axios.com/roger-stone-found-guilty-all-counts-9a18bed4-305d-4cc7-a839-61e1567542c9.html
Thank you for previous kind advice and mentioning us in the "right" Washington DC sleazy self-dealing back alley boardrooms... but our priorities have changed today especially after Marie Yovanovitch's new testimony which made all of us weep for America. Joey thanks you, all the corrupt warlords thank you... but bye bye just the same, you're both much too radioactive now.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Innovative Californians,_PG&E could_be headed_down the tubes
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pg-e-sees-6-3-135319463.html

You all might want to think about pushing up that purchase of electrical-generating solar power roof tiles and getting the Power Wall (huge stationary mounted lithium-cobalt off-the-grid UPS battery) from Elon Musk... or the next California wildfire might be the last time you can talk uninterrupted to your beloved electric Alexa.

The Doctor

[jigen9378]

wow, whats going on with this stock? is it going to hit 0.02?

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Bobble-heads falling_like flies_in smoggy_Delhi gas_chamber
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2019/11/05/new-delhi-smog-toxic-pollution-can-seen-space/4166838002/

Gee, it really is a pity India didn't start buying into lithium, cobalt and graphite sources (for in-country local battery manufacture) 3 or 4 years ago which would have helped them easily legislate/convert from nasty ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) in cars over to battery powered electric cars in 2019 to help clean up the air/stink in Delhi.

Ah well, as they say... Live, Die of lung disease and Learn... I always say.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Bears, wow_what a_job, I_couldn't_resist buying_at $.12pps
You sure have a unique way of turning could-see-it-coming-a-mile-away normal inevitable but suddenly quite-theatrical made-for-TV bad news into a buying opportunity.

Dear VW, I assume your Germans are talking with our Germans
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/production-vw-id3/
Hitler must have a super big shit-eating grin on his face today... his world domination plan for a EU and electric VWs has finally come true.

Cheerio

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Oh_what a_tangled web_we weave_when first_we practice_to deceive
https://www.ft.com/content/46bca6f4-0165-11ea-b7bc-f3fa4e77dd47

But on a brighter note, Joey has lost 11 pounds on the Jenny Craig "shoot yourself in the foot, lose your fat greedy ass" plan. It was either the benefits of that wonderful weight loss plan... or Joey's wallet sadly lost 11 pounds owing to a major shrinkage in our previous Ol' Boy Santa Claus midnight deliveries cash tribute/payoffs.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Federal_probe launched_into Tesla_for possible_battery defects
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/federal-probe-launched-tesla-battery-defects-alarming-number/story?id=66722728

Dear Elon, let us pray that some goof butt material supplier/assembler didn't short-change the amount of cobalt that needs to be installed in those batteries to prevent such explosions/fires.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Trump_impeachment: House_votes to formalize inquiry... yeow
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50246324

Dear Soon-to-be-ex-President Donald Trump, if I were you I would agree to the Easter Island Mini-APEC Chile 2019 Forum, ditch your staid police state blue suit & red necktie, set up a nice table with 21 flags flying in front of these famous stone statues, pose in a light blue summer shirt (or better a Guayabera shirt) with rolled up sleeves along with Xi Jinping casually dressed also (note: nobody dressed in suits for the photo-ops) and then sign phase 1 of the China-USA Trade deal in front of these Easter Island Heads looking west out over the Pacific Ocean https://theplanetd.com/easter-island/ (you should have your eyes looking westward for the cameras also).

Melania should be in a summery light chiffon dress billowing in the wind wearing nice stylish pretty "real women" strappy flat sandals from Targèt with her beautiful long hair flying free-as-a-bird in the wind. You should plaster your hair down with a bucket of lard to keep it from flying away in the wind. And fire your current press secretary Stephanie Grisham... she is an idiot, the little people can no longer stand her pompous/idiotic/lying drivel.

This Easter Island Mini-APEC/Truce will be Your Reykjavík moment in history... plus it will help to re-launch Ms Melania's modeling career in 2021.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Now_open wide Kids... the_Russians are_coming
https://www.axios.com/russia-africa-summit-vladimir-putin-weapons-deals-c175b26d-00a2-4875-9fec-4b9bc0bcae4a.html

I find the last three sentences of this article quite telling/interesting/promising
"American involvement comes with (ie came with) American values: protection of minorities, freedom of speech, open societies, free trade. And so when the US engages with a country, those are the terms on which it engages." The (new and improved, edit) bottom line: "Russia is not going to advocate for those. Neither will China.”

Well then, let's see if Putin will employ some of his "no more bullsheet" magic in DRC next.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear VW/Tesla/GM/Volvo/Rivian/etal, knock_out your_front teeth
buy lots of that minty-flavor mouthwash, get down on your knees and prepare to beg for your cobalt from China https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/china-drc-mining-sector-acquisition/

China has systematically and quietly bought up over half DRC's cobalt supplies and effectively controls 80% of the world's battery ready cobalt supply.

Sorry, but that's the facts of life... better you read it here than reading it in a People magazine in the waiting room of your dentist's office while waiting to have your pointy interfering-in-the-love-making-process front teeth extracted.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Glencore_signs 5-year deal to sell cobalt to China’s GEM
https://www.metalbulletin.com/Article/3897587/GEM-signs-five-year-61kt-cobalt-hydroxide-supply-contract-with-Glencore-[UPDATED].html
and,
https://www.miningmx.com/top-story/38770-glencore-signs-five-year-deal-to-sell-cobalt-to-chinese-firm-gem-co/

The Doctor

PS, Rah rah, siscoomba, Go Landslides!

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Score_2019: Thieves-Illegal mining =2313. Landslides =5.
https://www.mining-technology.com/mining-safety/landslide-gold-mine-kills16

If you are like me... then you always cheer for the underdog in these types of matches. Rah rah siscoomba, Go Landslides!

The Doctor

[Digra Ive]

Lovely. Especially match my positive mood about waving Lebanonny farmers from the side of Israeli borders thinking may be it was a mistake because it is such easy to get bullet just because you a friendly person and would happy to shake hands to my neighbor.
By the way, Nasrallah ( in Russian ) can be interpreted as -
Na - above
Sralla - released excrement ( female relation )
So you get - Stay in your shelter and we splash excrement above you so you can smell it and enjoy sniffing it. Xa xa xa.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Cobalt Illegal_Miners, oooo_some bad_news for_you thieves.
DRC is signing on to the USA Strategic Minerals Initiative... and the USA don't play dat' shit.
https://www.mining.com/web/nine-countries-join-us-strategic-minerals-initiative/

You might want to start working 24hrs per day round the clock stockpiling your booty while you can in the next few weeks before the USA Strategic Minerals Initiative observers (aka the USA SMI Enforcers) arrive in DRC... after that you will be stealing/working/thieving on borrowed time. Adios mutha' freakers.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Ooops_wrong board,_kindly disregard_and continue_talking amongst_yourselves

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Did you_buy an_electric car_before Iran_bombed the_Saudi oil_fields?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/15/middleeast/saudi-oil-attack-lister-analysis-intl/index.html
What's that you say? No? You did not buy an electric car? Tsk tsk, awwww what a shame that is for you. Now you are going to pay for gasoline at the new new "pre-black-Friday" prices (ie black for you) all the greedy blood-sucking oil barons supporting Trump want you to pay... and it ain't gonna' be pretty.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Moïse Katumbi_is back... and_DRC will_be better_for it
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/a-top-leader-of-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congos-political-opposition-returns
along with anyone else (esp previously exiled) who can help topple Joey is welcome back.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Reuters:_Demand for_metals used_in battery_electric vehicles_could rise_sixfold
https://www.miningweekly.com/article/electric-car-boom-to-turbocharge-battery-metal-producers---moodys-2019-09-10 if electric cars reach 8% of road traffic by the mid-2020s, delivering huge dividends for producing countries like Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Moody's said on Tuesday.

but as our luck will have it... Joey will take fivefold for himself and his goons/thugs while leaving onefold for everyone else left in the DRC.

Dear Martin Fayulu, we need you now more than ever

During his interview on BBC’s #HardTalk in April 2019 ⁦@MartinFayulu⁩ warned that both #Kabila and #Tshisekedi would maintain the status quo through « an unstable balance » while reminding his host and the audience that « Congolese people voted for change ». #DRC pic.twitter.com/H6NgS69DV1

— ECiDé RDC (@ECiDeRDC) August 30, 2019

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Robert_Mugabe's tombstone_will read "He_raped and_wrecked Zimbabwe"

Ahhh Joey Joey, someday your tombstone will same thing for DRC.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

So_many puppets_in DRC_that they're_growing on_the trees_now
https://www.dw.com/en/drc-is-president-tshisekedi-a-puppet-of-kabila/a-50171782

Dear Martin Fayulu, we will bide our time awaiting your inevitable "second coming".

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

DRC_announces new_government 7_months after_president inaugurated
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/dr-congo-announces-gov-7-months-president-inaugurated-190826061019033.html
The new government is just the Old government in a new dress... and a change into semi-fresh panties.

The "Real" New government won't arrive in DRC until Martin Fayula is allowed to take his rightful place in the Presidential office... up until that time we will only be suffering through perfumed-to-hide-the-stink of Joseph Kabila reincarnations.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

China Molybdenum struggling to make money
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-molybdenum-says-giant-congo-144548889.html

Dear CM, Joey's 1996 year long tour of military indoctrination and classroom studies in Beijing may have given him juuuuuust enough penetrating majordomo Chinese-insight into how best to kungfu fornicate the Chinese when you all took your eye off the prize for a few minutes and started letting the cancer-like so-called local artisanal (aka illegal) miners into your nice clean/well-organized house. Ahhhh that is a shame. This is what happens when you don't lock arms and stand tall with your fellow peers (esp a year ago).

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

What's_good for_the zinc... is_good for_the cobalt
https://www.mining.com/glencore-could-do-for-cobalt-what-it-did-for-zinc-double-the-price/

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

China's Huayou_pulls out_of Congo_cobalt mine investment
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-metals-cobalt/chinas-huayou-pulls-out-of-congo-cobalt-mine-investment-after-price-slump-idUSL4N25C2C4

The next question now is... will we (Katanga) be the last cobalt man left standing in the DRC?

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Joey, cobalt_could go_to $20/lb if_you'll keep_your big_yap shut
and quit sticking your slimy greasy mits in the pot for a while.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/cobalt-price-to-jump-60-in-next-18-month-idUKL4N2590WI

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this regard,

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear_Joey, you_and your_homeys might_be having_some bery_bery
big problems soon
Worry grows about China's falling currency and rising dollar debt.

I hope you didn't burn too many bridges to your old European friends (aka whitey).

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

What's_bad for_the goose,_is bad_for the gander..._or is_it?
The recent Glencore cobalt closure news regarding the Mutanda mine on the surface as a first impression indeed appears as "bad for the goose".

But as John Peterson so logically/rationally argues in his Seeking Alpha editorial https://seekingalpha.com/article/4283539-glencores-mutanda-mine-closure-cripple-kill-tesla this bad news affecting the goose is not necessarily bad news occurring in tandem affecting the Katanga mine as noted in his last paragraph. The Katanga "gander" is the near last cobalt-man standing and will continue onward and upward. I buy into John Peterson's logic/premise/argument... it makes perfect sense to me.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

DRC_used to_export cobalt, now_Ebola trying_to secure_top spot
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/rwanda-strives-stop-ebola-spreading-dr-congo-190807133346830.html

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Blah_blah_blah, Dear China,_sheet or_get off_the pot._Weaponize your_rare earths
and put a stop to the non-stop diarrhea constantly falling out of your permanently agape mouth.
https://www.scmp.com/business/commodities/article/3021947/chinas-rare-earth-producers-say-they-are-ready-weaponise-their
We are all so tired of your Chicken Little empty threats. Weaponize your dam rare earths and show Trump you have at least one half of the testicles you were born with.

The Doctor

PS, have a nice day.

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Dear Joey, are you finally happy now?

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Soooo_if Tesla_can not_find enough_nickel for_their batteries
Oh my, oh my, pray tell... what will little Tesla do?
https://www.mining.com/web/theres-one-metal-worrying-tesla-and-ev-battery-suppliers/

... would they go back to using cobalt?

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

From BHP, ahhhh change of plans
our BHP Nickel West is no longer for sale
Click here, ref 3-4 paragraphs
... We may have seriously underestimated the growth of EVs worldwide.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

Bravo Chinese_Bots, you have_taken us_down another_7% today
Is this drop sufficient for you now? Or, do you need another 2 or 3% drop before you start buying us up at these ridiculously low prices? And make no mistake... you are indeed going to be (ie lead) the next wave of buyers. No one is really fooled here.

The Doctor

[Dr_Vonschellan]

You win some, you lose some.
Joey still has a leash (or is it better described as a noose?) around our neck.
https://news.yahoo.com/congo-president-predecessor-agree-split-141754780.html

The Doctor