2012 Mining Billionaires: #12 Mikhail Prokhorov Russia's Eminem, presidential candidate, Snob, jet-ski champion and lazy home buyer. Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:10 pm
2012 Mining Billionaires: #13 Antonio Ermirio de Moraes From the Colorado School of mines to running a $17.6 billion conglomerate. Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:09 pm
2012 Mining Billionaires: #14 Roman Abramovich After record-breaking divorce settlement he has to deal with a new $6.8 billion suit. Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:08 pm
2012 Mining Billionaires: #15 Savitri Jindal #16 Andrey Melnichenko India’s steel family & Russia’s youngest billionaire and self made coal king. Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:07 pm
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. Frik Els | April 15, 2012 | 10:06 pm
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