Portrait of Gina Rinehart

People/magnate

Gina Rinehart

Gina Rinehart (born 1954), magnate, from Australia. Linked to iron ore.

The lucky break

Daughter of Lang Hancock.1,2,3

Legacy

Chair of Hancock Prospecting, which operates the Hope Downs and Roy Hill mines in the Pilbara (State Library of WA).1,2,3

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Where next

People

FamilyLang HancockHis daughter now chairs the company he founded.1

Mines

OwnedRoy HillHancock Prospecting holds 70 per cent of Roy Hill, 340 km south-east of Port Hedland.4

Sources

  1. Lang Hancock (Mining and Energy Western Australia exhibition) State Library of Western Australia
  2. Gina Rinehart Wikidata
  3. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons
  4. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, Australia (advance release) US Geological Survey

Pictures on this page: Gina Rinehart June 2015.jpg, Minister for Trade and Investment The Hon Andrew Robb AO MP (CC BY 4.0).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Autonomous trucks by RobSimmons223311, CC BY-SA 4.0; Conveyors, rail and ports by Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Kirunavaara gruva, Kiruna., Fotograf okänd, / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).