Richest people in metals & mining
92 billionaires worth a combined $661B, ranked by Forbes real-time estimates on October 11, 2026. Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family leads at $69.1B.
Ranking
| Name | Rank | Net worth | Since 2026 list | Age | Source | Country |
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| Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family | 30 | $69.1B | +$2.0B | 72 | Mining | Mexico |
| Iris Fontbona & family | 40 | $47.5B | -$5.1B | 83 | Mining | Chile |
| Alexey Mordashov & family | 60 | $36.9B | -$109M | 61 | Steel, investments | Russia |
| Savitri Jindal & family | 64 | $36.4B | -$2.7B | 76 | Steel | India |
| Lakshmi Mittal | 74 | $30.8B | -$189M | 76 | Steel | India |
| Vladimir Potanin | 77 | $29.7B | +$40M | 65 | Metals | Russia |
| Vladimir Lisin | 97 | $25.5B | +$33M | 70 | Steel, transport | Russia |
| Gina Rinehart | 99 | $24.9B | -$569M | 72 | Mining | Australia |
| Zheng Shuliang & family | 105 | $24.3B | -$8.9B | 80 | Aluminum products | China |
| Dang Yanbao | 125 | $21.7B | +$1.0B | 53 | Coal | China |
| Andrey Melnichenko & family | 133 | $20.4B | +$22M | 54 | Fertilizers, coal | Russia |
| Andrew Forrest & family | 171 | $16.3B | -$4.0B | 64 | Mining | Australia |
| Ivan Glasenberg | 220 | $14.1B | +$692M | 69 | Mining | Switzerland |
| Alisher Usmanov | 221 | $14.0B | -$493M | 73 | Steel, telecom, investments | Russia |
| Nicky Oppenheimer & family | 344 | $10.6B | +$34M | 81 | Diamonds | South Africa |
| Iskander Makhmudov | 373 | $9.7B | +$34M | 62 | Mining, metals, machinery | Russia |
| Zhang Xuexin & family | 379 | $9.5B | +$244M | 79 | Aluminum | China |
| Pavel Tykac | 442 | $8.6B | -$522M | 62 | Coal mines | Czech Republic |
| Paolo Rocca | 493 | $7.9B | +$589M | 73 | Pipe Manufacturing | Italy |
| Gianfelice Rocca | 494 | $7.9B | +$589M | 78 | Pipe Manufacturing | Italy |
| Rinat Akhmetov | 503 | $7.8B | -$21M | 60 | Steel, coal | Ukraine |
| Oleg Deripaska | 514 | $7.7B | +$65M | 58 | Aluminum, utilities | Russia |
| Andrei Skoch & family | 598 | $6.8B | +$28M | 60 | Metals and mining | Russia |
| Vladimir Kim | 699 | $5.9B | +$47M | 65 | Mining | Kazakhstan |
| Alexander Abramov | 710 | $5.8B | +$31M | 67 | Steel, mining | Russia |
| Anil Agarwal & family | 752 | $5.5B | +$950M | 73 | mining, metals | India |
| Bulat Utemuratov | 777 | $5.4B | -$2M | 68 | Mining, banking, hotels | Kazakhstan |
| Andrei Kozitsyn | 819 | $5.2B | +$10M | 66 | Metals | Russia |
| Igor Altushkin | 880 | $4.9B | +$4M | 56 | Metals | Russia |
| Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono | 950 | $4.6B | -$1.8B | 97 | Palm oil, nickel mining | Indonesia |
| Aristotelis Mistakidis | 966 | $4.5B | +$284M | 64 | Mining, commodities | Greece |
| Eduardo Hochschild | 968 | $4.5B | -$728M | 62 | mining | Peru |
| Angela Bennett | 1001 | $4.3B | -$104M | 82 | Mining | Australia |
| Daniel Mate | 1034 | $4.1B | +$225M | 63 | Mining, commodities | Spain |
| Clive Palmer | 1073 | $4.0B | -$50M | 72 | Mining | Australia |
| Cui Lixin | 1197 | $3.5B | -$2.0B | 57 | Aluminum | China |
| Xie Weitong | 1217 | $3.5B | +$60M | 69 | Cobalt | Taiwan |
| Julio Ponce Lerou | 1230 | $3.4B | -$476M | 80 | Fertilizer | Chile |
| Feng Hailiang | 1266 | $3.3B | +$148M | 66 | Copper, education | China |
| Patrice Motsepe | 1279 | $3.3B | -$980M | 64 | Mining | South Africa |
| Xiang Guangda | 1304 | $3.3B | -$941M | 68 | Metals | China |
| Agoes Projosasmito | 1390 | $3.0B | -$2.9B | 71 | Mining, investment | Indonesia |
| Robert Friedland | 1396 | $3.0B | -$597M | 76 | Mining | United States |
| Lin Lairong & family | 1408 | $3.0B | -$2.3B | 58 | Iron ore mining | China |
| Anatoly Sedykh | 1409 | $3.0B | -$19M | 61 | Steel pipes | Russia |
| Tor Peterson | 1413 | $3.0B | +$174M | 62 | Commodities | United States |
| Rufino Vigil Gonzalez | 1414 | $3.0B | -$129M | 78 | Steel | Mexico |
| Dmitry Pumpyansky | 1415 | $3.0B | -$31M | 62 | Steel pipes | Russia |
| Mikhail Shelkov | 1472 | $2.8B | +$26M | 58 | Titanium | Russia |
| Victor Pinchuk | 1491 | $2.8B | $0M | 65 | Steel pipes, diversified | Ukraine |
| Alex Beard | 1566 | $2.7B | +$162M | 59 | Mining, commodities | United Kingdom |
| Sam Chong | 1630 | $2.5B | -$70M | 83 | Mining | Australia |
| Alexander Frolov | 1638 | $2.5B | +$18M | 62 | Mining, steel | Russia |
| Cai Jianyong | 1751 | $2.3B | -$955M | 55 | Nickel | China |
| Alexandra Burt | 1922 | $2.1B | -$64M | 52 | Mining | Australia |
| Vasily Anisimov | 1937 | $2.1B | +$25M | 75 | Real estate | Croatia |
| Leonie Baldock | 2010 | $2.1B | -$42M | 55 | Mining | Australia |
| Kie Chie Wong | 2038 | $2.0B | -$468M | 78 | Investments | Malaysia |
| Gary Fegel | 2109 | $2.0B | -$40M | 52 | Commodities, investments | Switzerland |
| Gao Mingqing | 2114 | $2.0B | -$645M | 73 | Mining | China |
| John Hancock | 2154 | $1.9B | -$84M | 50 | Mining | Australia |
| Ginia Rinehart | 2161 | $1.9B | -$90M | 40 | Mining | Australia |
| Bianca Rinehart | 2178 | $1.9B | -$3M | 49 | Mining | Australia |
| Hope Welker | 2178 | $1.9B | -$3M | 41 | Mining | Australia |
| Li Jinyang | 2192 | $1.9B | +$80M | 43 | Mining | China |
| Giovanni Arvedi | 2309 | $1.8B | -$107M | 89 | Steel | Italy |
| Huang Zelan & family | 2389 | $1.7B | -$1.4B | 71 | metals | China |
| Zeng Chaolin | 2420 | $1.7B | -$704M | 44 | Aluminium | China |
| Alexander Ramlie | 2488 | $1.6B | -$1.1B | 53 | Mining | Indonesia |
| Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler | 2573 | $1.6B | -$43M | 62 | Metals, investments | United States |
| Jose Maria Aristrain | 2646 | $1.5B | -$400M | 63 | Steel | Spain |
| Dan Gertler | 2678 | $1.5B | -$19M | 52 | Mining | Israel |
| Chris Wallin | 2741 | $1.4B | -$71M | 73 | Mining | Australia |
| Wang Guanran | 2777 | $1.4B | n/a | 26 | Gold mining | China |
| Koon Poh Ming | 2778 | $1.4B | +$1M | 69 | aluminum | Malaysia |
| Luo Yangyong & family | 2881 | $1.3B | -$672M | 51 | Mining | China |
| Juan Maria Riberas Mera | 2929 | $1.3B | -$401M | 58 | Steel, investments | Spain |
| Richard Warke | 2950 | $1.3B | -$424M | 66 | Mining | Canada |
| Oleg Misevra | 3018 | $1.2B | +$22M | 59 | Coal | Russia |
| Richard Teets Jr | 3039 | $1.2B | +$209M | 70 | steel | United States |
| Wang Xiancheng | 3091 | $1.2B | -$21M | 68 | metals | China |
| Patokh Chodiev | 3099 | $1.2B | n/a | 73 | mining, metals | Belgium |
| Vadim Novinsky | 3110 | $1.2B | -$34M | 63 | Steel | Ukraine |
| Eduard Chukhlebov | 3151 | $1.1B | +$40M | 63 | metallurgy | Russia |
| Igor Kudryashkin | 3168 | $1.1B | +$25M | 64 | metallurgy | Russia |
| Wu Cheng | 3169 | $1.1B | -$476M | 41 | Mining | China |
| Kostyantin Zhevago | 3298 | $1.1B | -$143M | 52 | Mining | Ukraine |
| Wang Wenyin | 3314 | $1.0B | n/a | 58 | Mining, copper products | China |
| Wang Zelong | 3334 | $1.0B | -$171M | 30 | Chemicals | China |
| Eddy Sugianto | 3337 | $1.0B | -$73M | 80 | Coal | Indonesia |
| Jia Tianjiang & family | 3348 | $1.0B | n/a | 64 | Non-ferrous metals | China |
| Chris Ellison | 3371 | $1.0B | -$200M | 69 | Mining | Australia |
Wealth by country
- Russia: 18 billionaires, $182B combined, richest Alexey Mordashov & family
- China: 19 billionaires, $86.4B combined, richest Zheng Shuliang & family
- India: 3 billionaires, $72.7B combined, richest Savitri Jindal & family
- Mexico: 2 billionaires, $72.0B combined, richest Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family
- Australia: 13 billionaires, $66.2B combined, richest Gina Rinehart
- Chile: 2 billionaires, $50.9B combined, richest Iris Fontbona & family
- Italy: 3 billionaires, $17.6B combined, richest Paolo Rocca
- Switzerland: 2 billionaires, $16.1B combined, richest Ivan Glasenberg
- South Africa: 2 billionaires, $14.0B combined, richest Nicky Oppenheimer & family
- Ukraine: 4 billionaires, $12.8B combined, richest Rinat Akhmetov
- Kazakhstan: 2 billionaires, $11.3B combined, richest Vladimir Kim
- Indonesia: 4 billionaires, $10.2B combined, richest Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono
- United States: 4 billionaires, $8.7B combined, richest Robert Friedland
- Czech Republic: 1 billionaires, $8.6B combined, richest Pavel Tykac
- Spain: 3 billionaires, $6.9B combined, richest Daniel Mate
Questions people ask
Who is the richest person in metals & mining?
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco & family is the richest person in metals & mining, worth $69.1B on October 11, 2026, according to Forbes real-time estimates. Iris Fontbona & family is next at $47.5B.
How many billionaires are there in metals & mining?
Forbes tracks 92 billionaires in metals & mining as of October 11, 2026, worth a combined $661B. The median net worth among them is $3.0B.
Are billionaires in metals & mining getting richer this year?
The 88 of them who were also on the 2026 Forbes billionaires list are down 5.3% (-$36.7B) together since that list, comparing each person's real-time worth with their figure on it.
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