Top 1-20. MINING & METALLURGY. Forbes World's Billionaires List. The Richest in 2023

 

 Forbes World's Billionaires List. The Richest in 2021. MINING & METALLURGY (Top 1-20):
1. #24 Gautam Adani & family (India) - coal
2. #52 Gina Rinehart (Australia) - iron ore
3. #54 German Larrea Mota Velasco & family (Mexico) - copper, molybdenum, silver, coal
4.  #56  Low Tuck Kwong (Indonesia) - coal
5. #58 Andrey Melnichenko (Russia) -  baddeleyite concentrate, apatite concentrate, iron  concentrate, phosphate fertilizers,  feed phosphates, potash fertilizers, coal
6. #62 Vladimir Potanin (Russia) -   nickel, copper, cobalt, palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, silver, gold, selenium, tellurium, other metals, coal
7. #65 Iris Fontbona & family (Chile) - copper, molybdenum, gold
8. #70 Vladimir Lisin (Russia) -  steel, limestone, dolomite, coal
9. #79  Alexey Mordashov (Russia) -  steel, gold, coal, broken stone
10. #82 Andrew Forrest (Australia) - iron ore
11. #84 Wang Wenyin (China) - copper, tungsten
12. #93 Lakshmi Mittal (India, United Kingdom) - steel, coal
13. #94 Savitri Jindal & family (India) - steel, coal
14. #114 Radhakishan Damani (India) - limestone
15. #116 Dhanin Chearavanont (Thailand) - iron ore, steel, aluminium, bauxite,  alumina, magnetite, coal, manganese
16. #122 Alisher Usmanov (Russia) - steel, copper, iron ore
17. #124 Kumar Birla (India) - aluminium, copper, limestone,  iron ore, ferro alloys, coal, dolomite, precious metals,  phosphoric fertilisers, diamond
18. #124 Aliko Dangote (Nigeria) - limestone, coal
19. #140 Mikhail Fridman (Russia, Israel, United Kingdom) - recycling aluminum scrap, steel, coal
20. #142 Dang Yanbao (China) - coal 

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya

Top 1-10. MINING & METALLURGY. Forbes World's Billionaires List. The Richest in 2023

  

Forbes World's Billionaires List. The Richest in 2023. MINING & METALLURGY (Top 1-10): 

1. #24 Gautam Adani & family (India) - coal
2. #52 Gina Rinehart (Australia) - iron ore
3. #54 German Larrea Mota Velasco & family (Mexico) - copper, molybdenum, silver, coal
4.  #56  Low Tuck Kwong (Indonesia) - coal
5. #58 Andrey Melnichenko (Russia) -  baddeleyite concentrate, apatite concentrate, iron  concentrate, phosphate fertilizers,  feed phosphates, potash fertilizers, coal
6. #62 Vladimir Potanin (Russia) -   nickel, copper, cobalt, palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, silver, gold, selenium, tellurium, other metals, coal
7. #65 Iris Fontbona & family (Chile) - copper, molybdenum, gold
8. #70 Vladimir Lisin (Russia) -  steel, limestone, dolomite, coal
9. #79  Alexey Mordashov (Russia) -  steel, gold, coal, broken stone
10. #82 Andrew Forrest (Australia) - iron ore
 
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya

CLASSIFICATION OF RAW MATERIALS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)

 CLASSIFICATION OF RAW MATERIALS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)

Author of the classification is Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya, 2023

RAW MATERIALS OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)

1. Rare earth element deposits

1.1. Primary deposits (More than 450 deposits)

1.2. Placer deposits (or Alluvial):

1.2.1. Marine deposits (or Ocean deposits) (More than 170 deposits)

 1.2.2. Fluvial deposits (More than 58 deposits)

1.3. Ion-adsorption clays (IAC) deposits (or Ionic clay deposits)

2. Waste

2.1. Industrial waste (Pit water, Phosphogypsum, Coal ash)

2.2. Secondary raw materials

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya

 

CLASSIFICATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) DEPOSIT TYPES

CLASSIFICATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) DEPOSIT TYPES
Author of the classification is Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya, 2023
Rare earth element deposits
1. Primary deposits (More than 450 deposits)
2. Placer deposits (or Alluvial):
2.1. Marine deposits (or ocean deposits) (More than 170 deposits)
 2.2. Fluvial deposits (More than 58 deposits)
3. Ion-adsorption clays (IAC) deposits (or Ionic clay deposits)
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya 

 

REE deposits

We know more than 681 deposits of REE in 79 countries to date. The 450 occurrence this primary deposits of REE.

Distribution of deposits by continent:
Asia - 32%
America - 23% (North America - 16%)
Europe - 17%
Africa - 16%
Australia - 12%

The greatest number of REE primary deposits by country:
Russia - 94 (of 96 deposits)
USA - 54 (of 80 deposits)
China - 19 (of 34 deposits)
Brazil - 16 (of 37 deposits)
Australia - 9 (of 75 deposits)

Countries that have 9-15 REE deposits:
Asia - Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India, Myanmar (these countries have mainly alluvial deposits), Saudi Arabia
Africa - Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, Madagascar, Namibia
Europe - France, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway
North America - Canada, Greenland (Denmark)

Countries that have all types of REE deposits (primary deposits, alluvial and fluvial placers:
   USA
   China
   Brazil

Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya