Illustration by Luis Grañena
A little over a year ago, Robert M. Friedland, the eccentric founder of Ivanhoe Mines, sat down in his Singapore home to record the keynote address for the Association for Mineral Exploration’s annual roundup, a fixture of the Canadian mining industry calendar. With his top button undone and his sleeves rolled up, the billionaire serial entrepreneur was in a decidedly good mood.
“You’re going to be able to make more money in the next few years than
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