Companies from the emerging economies are a growing feature of the global mining industry. This document looks at who these companies are and the factors behind their growth. Discusses few challenges the emerging players will face as a result of the global economic crisis and also focuses on the development implications of their growing role.

Companies from the emerging economies are a growing feature of the global mining industry. This document looks at who these companies are and the factors behind their growth. The Russian mining company, Norilsk Nickel, for which the author worked until the end of 2008, is used to illustrate some of the points made. The document then goes on to discuss some of the challenges the emerging players will face as a result of the global economic crisis and finishes with some comments
on the development implications of their growing role.