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After college in Canada, Peter Zhou’s passion for numbers — the way injections of money can be used to grow and shape businesses, the complexities and vagaries of the world’s financial cycles — led him not back to China but to the Bank of Montreal. Canada, a nation with a long history of extractive industries, was a hub for mining start‑ups. “That bank is known for resources, fracking, mining, and oil and gas,” he told me when we spoke in 2020. “I got into [mining] according to t
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