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
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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.
Canada’s Harper tells Americas summit mining has ‘vast power to change the way a nation lives’
Mining contributed $50 billion to the country’s GDP in 2011, he said, and provides “well paying” jobs for more than 300,000 Canadians.
With 4 mega-projects sucking up $120 billion, BHP vows to ‘live within its means’
BHP's four largest projects – Olympic Dam, the Outer Harbour iron ore infrastructure project in Australia, expansion of its US shale gas operations and Jansen potash in Saskatchewan, Canada – require $120 billion in capex costs, but will only start to contribute to the bottom line by 2023.
You’ll soon be able to choose from a bunch of diamond ETFs
A small number of investment professionals around the world are competing behind the scenes to turn the gem into a commodity that would be available to investors in the way that gold has been traded through funds on exchanges.
Billionaire behaving badly? Glencore’s Glasenberg caught in Africa child labour, acid dumping row
In a scathing new BBC documentary that includes the first ever television interview with CEO Ivan Glasenberg, commodities trader Glencore is accused of allowing dumping of acid into streams, child labour and deadly underground working conditions at its copper-cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It’s crunch time for UK Coal as it heads for big restructuring
The very survival of Britain?s coal mining industry depends on the success of a massive restructuring of UK Coal, which is to be announced in the next fortnight.
