Frik Els , Editor

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:05 pm

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:04 pm

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:03 pm

2012 Mining Billionaires: #29 Andrei Skoch, #30 Low Tuck Kwong

Russia’s richest member of parliament & the wealthiest of Indonesia’s three coal billionaires.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:02 pm

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

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:01 pm

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:00 pm

2012 Mining Billionaires: #42 – #87 Chen Fashu to Roberto Ongpin

The last of the mining billionaires.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 9:00 pm

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 7:20 pm

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 12:50 am

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.

Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 12:30 am

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