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The Norway’s way of investing its oil and natural gas revenues through a national oil fund in the most important world’s listed companies is probably the best mineral rich developing countries should emulated through adaptation in their own developing country conditions.  Even though it took Norway 30 years before its oil activity started contributing the budget surpluses its oil fund builds from, it is thought that the adaptation of Norway’s way of investing its oil and gas revenues in the conditions of mineral rich developing countries should cover all minerals and require all national mineral resource revenues other than the sourced from national investing for shares in the foreign dominated ownership of mineral industries in the developing countries to be deposited in the national mineral funds which invest the way Norway’s oil fund invests. While Norway’s oil fund building up from mostly oil and gas sourced budget surpluses is justifiable on grounds that its oil and gas industries are mostly developed from own national budgets, the mineral rich developing countries building up of their mineral funds from all national mineral resource revenues other than the sourced from their investing  for shares of their mineral industries is also justifiable because budgets in the mineral rich developing countries don’t contribute much of the investments involved in their mineral industries. Mineral rich developing countries direct consumption of the nonrenewable national mineral resource revenues sourced from the all foreign budgets led development of their mineral industries would also be counterproductive, same as their chronic dependence on foreign aid is. Borrowing from their mineral resource funds is the only constructive way mineral rich developing countries could involve their mineral resource revenues sourced from all foreign investing in the development of their mineral industries in their national annual budgets.