2012 Mining Billionaires: #17 Dmitry Rybolovlev, #18 Oleg Deripaska, #19 Iskander Makhmudov
Three ex-Soviet tycoons into copper, potash and nickel make it big, very big.
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2012 Mining Billionaires: #20 Ivan Glasenberg, #21 Nicky Oppenheimer and family, #22 Beny Steinmetz
One South African family bows out as another steps into spotlight. And the second of three diamond billionaires on the list.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #23 Andrew Forrest, #24 Sergei Popov, #25 Viktor Rashnikov
Twiggy and his binding Chinese contracts and two Russians experiencing a very bad year.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #26 Alexander Abramov, #27 Gautam Adani, #28 Dennis Washington
A Russian scientist ditches the lab for mines. An Indian diamond dealer building coal ports. And a small Montana copper mine leads to a private island.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #29 Andrei Skoch, #30 Low Tuck Kwong
Russia’s richest member of parliament & the wealthiest of Indonesia’s three coal billionaires.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #31 Anil Agarwal, #32 Andrei Guriev, #33 Vladimir Kim
From scrap metal trader to a $1 billion university in your name & The Soviet era’s ultimate mine turnaround story
2012 Mining Billionaires: #34 Vasily Anisimov, #35 Alexander Nesis, #36 Igor Zyuzin, #37 Patokh Chodiev, #38 Alijan Ibragimov, #39 Alexander Machkevich, #40 Daniel Mate, #41 Aristotelis Mistakidis
A batch of Glencore billionaires and an unlikely threesome who together built an Eurasian copper giant.
2012 Mining Billionaires: #42 – #87 Chen Fashu to Roberto Ongpin
The last of the mining billionaires.
400,000 tonnes dead weight – Vale’s massive ore carriers suffer new setback
Two of Vale's massive Valemax carriers were in Subic Bay, Philippines for just under a month transferring cargo to smaller ships to carry iron ore onto China, because the 400,000 tonne vessels may not dock at Chinese ports.
