2012 Mining Billionaires: #5 Alisher Usmanov, #6 Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez
Russian metal king turned Twitter, Facebook fiend and hated soccer investor & Mexico's silver tycoon
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2012 Mining Billionaires: #2 Lakshmi Mittal
Mining’s biggest loser Lakshmi Mittal is down to his last $20 billion
2012 Mining Billionaires: #5 Iris Fontbona, #6 Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez
Chile's copper widow and Mexico's silver tycoon.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #7 Rinat Akhmetov, #8 Vladimir Lisin, #9 Alexei Mordashov, #10 Vladimir Potanin
A trio of Russian metal oligarchs and Ukraine’s controller of coal.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #11 German Larrea Mota Velasco
The lesser-spotted Mexican copper magnate.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #12 Mikhail Prokhorov
Russia's Eminem, presidential candidate, Snob, jet-ski champion and lazy home buyer.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #13 Antonio Ermirio de Moraes
From the Colorado School of mines to running a $17.6 billion conglomerate.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #14 Roman Abramovich
After record-breaking divorce settlement he has to deal with a new $6.8 billion suit.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #15 Savitri Jindal #16 Andrey Melnichenko
India’s steel family & Russia’s youngest billionaire and self made coal king.
