Some of the most attentive audience members during Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal's appearance on stage at the Mining Indaba were members of Anglo American's executive team - sitting in anticipation, they hung on every utterance of the Vedanta Resources chairman. Seeming to continue the opaque game of cat and mouse between the two mining companies, Agarwal remained mum about what he intends to do with his stake in Anglo American. Known as a go-getter, a charming but impatient man - some even say sneaky - Agarwal is the founder and owner of the company and has bought up to 21% of Anglo American, making him the biggest shareholder of the business through his family investment company, Volcan Investments. Vedanta, which employs about 80000 people at its operations globally, is known for its entrepreneurial and calculated risk-taking approach to mining, which is quite rare. The family-run and owned company, which is being branded to be run similarly to the old Anglo of the Oppenheimers...
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