Consolidation is having a vivid impact on the global mining industry.

Consolidation is having a vivid impact on the global mining industry, with shareholders of the not many remaining medium-sized companies enjoying the attention, and merger and acquisitions teams participating in a feeding derangement This phase is close to completion and more than 60% of the global industry (excluding state-owned assets) is allowed by only five companies, pair of which are pure aluminium farmers (Alcoa and Alcan). The shape of the industry for the nearest few years is now more or les fixed, and further strategic shifts at the major companies will be hardly any and far between, principally because of the lack