Bhappu, a 50-year-old partner at private equity firm Resource Capital Funds, has known about rare earth minerals and Molycorp his whole life.
The facility is part of a 27-year waste management agreement between the city and county councils and private firm Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS).
One of the greatest private equity deals going, an investment in Molycorp, belongs to little-known private equity firm Resource Capital Funds, headquartered in Denver.
Two years later Bhappu had not forgotten about Molycorp when he attended a 2007 board meeting of Traxys, a metals trading firm that Resource Capital partly owns.
Australian resource-services firm WorleyParsons reported increased profits but said rising costs and project delays were pressuring margins.
Shale gas resources in Lancashire could be worth billions of pounds, says the head of the energy firm test drilling for the resource.
It was packed with Canadian companies in search of capital either through a direct listing (difficult, given profitability requirements at the Hong Kong stock exchange) or a partial investment by a cash-laden, resource-hungry Chinese firm.
"He's very shy, a normal fellow, a family person who leads his own life and feels it's none of the public's business, " says Jerry Seslowe, chairman of Resource Holdings, a private investment firm in Manhattan he started with Anschutz and the late billionaire Jay Pritzker.
Last year the Brussels-based firm ranked 8th, but thanks largely to its disclosure practices and resource productivity performance, it now holds the No. 1 spot.
In the book, I sketch out a few of the early examples of anti-leaking technologies, including those described in a request for proposals launched by the Pentagon research arm known as the Defense Advanced Resource Projects Agency in 2010 that suggested methods of monitoring all employees in a firm or agency for leak-like behaviors.
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Several resource-sector shares fell, amid uncertainty over Chinese demand growth and after a firm U.S. dollar pressured commodity prices in New York Wednesday.
The firm said some drivers were working overtime to reduce the impact and "a number of changes to the way we resource our train services" would also help.
After that high point in the bidding war, the government continued to dump spectrum on the market and the value of the resource plummeted by as much as 85%, according to Herschel Shosteck, who heads telecommunications market research firm Herschel Shosteck Associates in Wheaton, Md.
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