Nelson Bunker Hunt (born February 22, 1926) is an American oil company executive. He is best known as a former billionaire whose fortune collapsed after he and his brother William Herbert Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver. He is also a successful thoroughbred horse breeder.
Hunt was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, and currently lives in Dallas, Texas. He is the son of Lyda Bunker and oil tycoon H. L. Hunt and the brother of ...
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Nelson Bunker Hunt (born February 22, 1926) is an American oil company executive. He is best known as a former billionaire whose fortune collapsed after he and his brother William Herbert Hunt tried but failed to corner the world market in silver. He is also a successful thoroughbred horse breeder.
Hunt was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, and currently lives in Dallas, Texas. He is the son of Lyda Bunker and oil tycoon H. L. Hunt and the brother of Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League and Kansas City Chiefs.
Nelson Bunker Hunt played a very significant role in the discovery and development of the oil fields in Libya which would later be nationalized by Muammar al-Gaddafi.
He owns the Dallas, Texas based Titan Resources Corp which is involved in the exploration of oil in North Africa. He is chairman of Hunt Exploration and Mining Company (HEMCO).
Beginning in the early 1970s, Hunt and his brother William Herbert Hunt began accumulating large amounts of silver. By 1979, they...
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