A MINING magnate has seen his fortune soar by £8 billion since a massacre of protesters outside one of his smelters last year.

Analysis by the Star of the Sunday Times’s new Rich List highlighted London-based Anil Agarwal as one of the highest risers among Britain’s 1,000 top toffs, rocketing 62 places to finish in 12th position with a net worth of over £10bn.

The latest league table of Britain’s super-rich has angered Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who called it “a stark reminder of the grotesque inequality that scars our society.”