PROSPECTIVE RARE METALS:
Rare Light Metals: Beryllium (Be)
Rare Refractory Metals: Rhenium (Re), Hafnium (Hf), Tantalum (Ta), Tungsten (W)
Rare Trace Metals: Germanium (Ge), Indium (In), Gallium (Ga), Tellurium (Te), Selenium (Se)
Rare
Earth Metals: Terbium (Tb), Dysprosium (Dy), Praseodymium (Pr),
Neodymium (Nd), Europium (Eu), Yttrium (Y), Scandium (Sc), Erbium (Er)
Rare Radioactive Metals: Uranium (U)
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
37. #323 David Reuben (United Kingdom) - aluminum, steel, copper, recycling scrap metals
38. #323 Simon Reuben (United Kingdom) - aluminum, steel, copper
In
1997, Russia's Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov linked both the
Cherney brothers and Reuben brothers to the Izmaylovskaya mafia led by
Anton Malevsky in Israel. In March 1998, Boris Yeltsin replaced Kulikov
as minister.
In the early 1990s, the brothers invested in the Russian
metals market. When Russian aluminum smelters were incapacitated by
debt, Reuben company Trans World entered into tolling arrangements with
factories in which they paid for and delivered raw materials in return
for finished aluminum, which it then sold for profit.[9] The company's
investment in Russia was US$1.5 billion (£870 million), with global
sales in 1995 above US$8 billion.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
100 out of 1000 billionaires invest in mining or metallurgy. This is 10%.
Out of 100 billionaires:
80 % have college and university diplomas;
3-4 % studied but did not graduate;
17-18 % have no university education;
2-3 % have no school education.
This did not stop them from becoming billionaires.
80 billionaires have over 110 diplomas. Of them:
Engineer, bachelor - 62 %;
Master - 24 %
Doctors of science - 14 %.
Billionaires are diplomas in the following specialties:
Economics, business, management - 51 %;
Law, jurisprudence - 9 %;
Metallurgy, mining - 6 % (only billionaires from Russia);
Other - 34 %.
14 Doctors of Science in the following specialties (15 diplomas):
Economics - 27 %;
Math and physics - 20 %;
Metallurgy and mining - 13 % (only billionaires from Russia);
Jurisprudence - 13 %;
Other - 27 %.
For those studying economics, the mind works in a completely different way.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
For example, there are a lot of reserves in the USA. And there are billionaires from other countries who have mining operations in the US. Why are there so few US billionaires? Where is the modern George Hearst?
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
Let me explain the situation to you.
IMHO, It's all about tradition.
Who
in America runs the businesses? Managers, economists and lawyers. They
don't care what they manage. For example, John Sculley doesn't care what
he manages, Coca Cola or Apple. He managed to fire company founder
Steve Jobs!
In Russia, enterprises are traditionally run by
specialists. That is, mining enterprises are managed by professional
miners, metallurgical enterprises by metallurgists, chemical enterprises
by chemists, and so on.
Therefore, with a small number of universities in the ranking, the number of billionaires is much larger.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
IMHO, Barrick Gold and Rio Tinto are the two most unlucky and inefficient companies in the last 10 years. They have continuous litigation and financial losses.
The billionaire Georgr Soros invested in Barrick Gold twice and lost his money twice.
In the same way, Rio Tinto searched for diamonds in Russia to no avail.
I am not a person who is interested in the situation and I don’t care, let them look for what they want. I'm just curious.
What do Barrick Gold and Rio Tinto hope to find where others could not find?
I expressed my personal opinion, which may not coincide with official estimates.
Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya
