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 “Sell in May, and go away. Come back on St Leger’s Day” is a famous stock market adage that has endured for decades, despite being bad advice.

What does excitement over an ‘astronomical’ Japanese rare earth metals discovery say about investing in companies searching for the minerals?

Stefan Olivier worked on many transactions in the natural resources space in his time at the investment house Cornhill Capital. And it is this experience and the network of contacts he and Cornhill founder Andrew Frangos amassed in those years that will be deployed at North American Petroleum, their latest venture.