Mind Map Description
Interactive Mind Map based on the
Forbes Global 2000
Leading Companies, Industry: Diversified Metals & Mining. Values calculated April 2011.
Forbes Global 2000
The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual
ranking of the biggest 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine. The
ranking is based on a mix of four metrics: sales, profit, assets and market
value. The market value calculation is as of March 11 closing prices, including all common shares outstanding.
Primary sources of data: Interactive Data, Thomson Reuters Fundamentals and Worldscope databases via FactSet Research Systems for companies that were publicly trading as of March 11, 2011.
The list has been published since 2003.
Read more at Forbes.com.
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other
geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal)
seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron,
uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. Any
material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or created
artificially in a laboratory or factory, is usually mined. Mining in a wider
sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource.
Source:
Wikipedia, Mining.
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