2012 Mining Billionaires: #14 Roman Abramovich
After record-breaking divorce settlement he has to deal with a new $6.8 billion suit.
Frik Els , Editor
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
Posts by Frik Els:
2012 Mining Billionaires: #15 Savitri Jindal #16 Andrey Melnichenko
India’s steel family & Russia’s youngest billionaire and self made coal king.
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.
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.
CHART: Asian EV battery makers buy 94% of global battery metals
EV battery manufacturers based in China, Korea and Japan have almost complete control of the global market, and it’s not changing any time soon.