2012 Mining Billionaires: #7 Rinat Akhmetov, #8 Vladimir Lisin, #9 Alexei Mordashov, #10 Vladimir Potanin

#7 Rinat Akhmetov Rinat Akhmetov(pictured left in 2008) 39th on the list of the world's billionaires making him the 7th richest miner. Akhmetov is worth $16 billion and like many of his oligarch pals made his money from the privatization...