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Let’s get behind our incredible athletes as they make waves on the world stage!
Simon Trott is a ‘safe’ pair of hands for Rio Tinto who will change the ‘feel’ of the global mining business and is poised to pare back his predecessor’s lithium bet, according to analysts.
One of Rio’s most important mining partners, billionaire Gina Rinehart, says Simon Trott’s elevation to the top job is a chance to shift the company’s headquarters.
RIO TINTO and Hancock Prospecting will invest $US1.6 billion ($2.47 billion) in the development of the joint venture’s Hope Downs iron ore asset in the Pilbara.
The United States Department of Defense will join Gina Rinehart on the share registry of US-listed rare earths producer MP Materials, in a bid to secure its critical supply chains.
THE Australian Rowing Team capped off its World Rowing Cups series with a strong showing at the 2025 World Rowing Cup – Lucerne, where 29 Australian athletes stepped onto the podium across six crews.
A program-record four student-athletes – Hancock Prospecting Swimming Excellence Scholarship recipients Flynn Southam, Jesse Coleman, Milla Jansen and Hannah Casey – and coach Chris Mooney have made the Dolphins squad for the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore next month.
Hancock Prospecting chair Gina Rinehart has slammed the federal government for wasting “trillions of taxpayers’ [and shareholders’] money on net zero”, which she claims has resulted in added expenses for every Australian adult already facing the cost-of-living crisis.
The Hope Downs 2 announcement with Hancock Prospecting’s partner Rio Tinto, is a time for us to reflect over the years we have looked forward to such development, of the benefit this investment and project will bring to local people approx. 1,200kms from Perth, and to many West Australian and Australian businesses supplying goods and services.
Australia has critical labour shortages across multiple sectors. Fewer than 76,000 pensioners (3%) currently work, but many would work (or work more) if they did not lose 50c in the dollar when they work more than once day a week.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has described her giant $10bn Roy Hill iron ore mine as “the mega project that … we thought might not happen”. The billionaire mining magnate told a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Roy Hill that the mine’s first equity investors had made a “rare entrepreneurial move … with significant risk” that had paved the way for a project that made $13bn in net profits in the last two years alone and already paid off $10bn in debt in full.
AUSTRALIAN mining and agriculture icon Gina Rinehart has again stepped up for rural Australia, this time becoming the patron of rural charity Rural Aid. Mrs Rinehart said Rural Aid was an organisation that ‘stands with our mates in the bush’ during their hard times. “And it does get tough in the bush, with floods, fires and severe drought, in addition to the usual dangers of snakes, spiders and in some northern areas, crocodiles too,” she said. “As patron of Rural Aid, I encourage all Australians to throw their support behind its ongoing efforts in ensuring that our food producers – our farmers- are able to get back on their feet quickly when drought, flood or bushfire hits them.”
HANCOCK Prospecting chair Gina Rinehart has been announced as the 2023 Western Australian of the Year. Rinehart was honoured for her contribution to business, as well as her philanthropy, which ranges from support for breast cancer research to sponsorship of Australian Olympians. “We must ensure that our country is not left behind by short-sighted decisions and encourage policies that welcome investment in our wonderful state,” Rinehart said when accepting the award.
On 10 February 2023, Oldendorff Carriers celebrated the namegiving of its latest Japanese capesize newbuilding, the “Gina Oldendorff”, which was named after Australian mining figure, Gina Rinehart. Mrs Rinehart is the executive chair of the mining company Hancock Prospecting. Mrs Rinehart christened the ship at the name-giving ceremony at Namura Shipyard, Imari, Japan.
Australia’s richest person has provided a rare insight into her initial struggles, motivations and ambitions after celebrating 30 years at the helm of what is now the country’s biggest private company.