I'm Omer , a commodity broker based in Xiamen, China.
What I work on:
πΆ Minerals trade
βοΈ Mining opportunities in Pakistan
π China-Pakistan-Africa trade corridors
If you're in commodities, mining, trade finance, or just curious about Pakistan-China business β follow along.
6/ The real lesson from a month in China: opportunity doesn't travel to you. You go to it, you earn the right to it, and then you work like hell to close it.
5/ I've learned: you don't wait. You build the follow-up pipeline the moment you land. You send the emails before jet lag hits. You strike while the relationship is still warm.
4/ That gap between the conversation and the contract is where most people quit. They mistake pressure for failure. They mistake silence for rejection. They go home and wait.
3/ In 30 days in China I visited factories, negotiated with suppliers who've been in this industry longer than I've been alive, and built relationships that could change the trajectory of my business. None of that is guaranteed to convert yet.
2/ Landing back home is a different game entirely. The structure disappears. The meetings stop. And suddenly it's just you and the weight of everything you said you'd make happen.
π§΅ Just landed back in Pakistan after a month in China. Here's what nobody tells you about building across borders:
1/ The trip itself is the easy part. China is electric. Factories, deals, dinners, new contacts. The momentum is built-in. You barely have to think. You just move.
A last-minute deal using decades-old European stockpiles kept production alive. Barely.
And Pakistan - sitting on copper, gold, and rare earths is suddenly very interesting to a lot of people.
#CriticalMinerals#RareEarths#Copper#Pakistan#Geopolitics#Mining
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π§² Neodymium & Samarium β rare earth magnets for guidance
πͺ¨ Tungsten β penetrating components
π Cobalt β superalloys
β¦and 12 more.
China cut off samarium exports to US defense contractors earlier this year β the very material that makes Tomahawk fins work.
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Copper supply risk nobody's talking about:
β ~50% of global seaborne sulphur moves through the Strait of Hormuz
β The Central African Copperbelt imports ~2Mt/yr to make sulphuric acid for copper leaching
β Acid costs already at $700-800/t in Kolwezi
#Copper#Trade#War
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