Pioneer of the
Australian Iron Ore
Industry
Welcome to
HANCOCK PROSPECTING
The most successful private company ever in Australia’s history, and one of the most successful private mining companies in the world.
Built on a long and special history of investing and risk taking in Australia, Hancock Prospecting is an independent, privately owned Australian company that has a proud history with the Pilbara and the iron ore sector, and is one of the longest continuous owners of cattle stations in Australia.
POWERING AUSTRALIA’S ATHLETES TO STUNNING PARIS PERFORMANCES
Hancock Prospecting is a partner of the Australian Olympic Committee. A partnership that reflects the unwavering commitment of our Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, to Australian sport at all levels and her longstanding commitment of our nation’s top athletes.
When mining does well, Australia does well. But when mining doesn't do well, nor do Australians.
Mrs Gina Rinehart AO
Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting
Founder, National Mining & Related Industries Day
22 November 2024
This year, National Mining Day will be held at a Santos gasfield, with charter flights provided from Adelaide.
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National Mining and Related Industries Day 2024
On the 22nd November, people travelled from all over Australia, to come together in outback Australia to celebrate National Mining and Related Industries Day. The gala event was held at Santos’s Moomba gas field in South Australia.
Anthony Albanese intervenes to stop Labor deal with the Greens, overrides Tanya Plibersek
Anthony Albanese has personally intervened to scuttle a deal with the Greens on a signature plank of his environmental platform after appeals from WA Premier Roger Cook, again overriding his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek just months out from the federal election.
Hancock Prospecting celebrates 70 years
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is celebrating seven decades of operations, marking the day Lang and Hope Hancock founded the company.
Inside lawfare plot to block Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas project
Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork and minimal consultation with Indigenous leaders, according to court documents.
Rinehart pushes Trump agenda
Gina Rinehart has stepped up her calls for Australia to cut regulation and taxes while also borrowing from US president-elect Donald Trump with the pro-oil slogan ‘Drill Baby Drill’.
‘Sell the pot plants’: Gina Rinehart takes aim at public service
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has taken aim at bureaucrats while calling for Trump-style cuts to the public service, saying taking the axe to public spending would pay for tax cuts.
The billionaire mining magnate and Liberal party donor used her speech at a National Mining Day event hosted by Santos last week to outline her vision of a stripped-back Australian Public Service.
Bush Summit 2024
Dr. Gina Rinehart AO speeches
Notices on fake social media posts encouraging investment in scams
VETERANS 4
JOBS
“Hancock Prospecting is built on good Australian values where loyalty and performance are rewarded. Our vision is to create pathways to business and employment opportunity for veterans and ex military across Hancock Prospecting, That the veterans feel valued and preferentially treated when they approach us and that we create a real sense of recognition of military service to the country for which they served which for the majority will be Australia.”
Hancock Prospecting Executive Chairperson,
Gina Rinehart AO
Building an exceptional future
We are committed to developing opportunities for women across our operation. Join us to continue building an exceptional future for our great nation, and to set yourself up now and into the future.
Future Australian
Jobs
We have varied and exciting career opportunities across our mining and agricultural businesses. To join one of Australia’s most successful private company, head to www.futureaustralianjobs.com for more information.
Major
Highlights
Rinehart crowned Business Person of the Year
“Under Mrs Rinehart’s leadership, Hancock Prospecting has been transformed from a company facing a parlous financial position in 1992, when she became executive chairman, to Australia’s most successful private company,” Hancock Prospecting said. “On behalf of the Hancock Prospecting executive team and staff, congratulations Mrs Rinehart on this well-earned recognition for your hard work, dedication, and leadership. Hancock Prospecting, and indeed Australia, would not be what it is today without you.”
The Australian Financial Review names its Business Person of the Year
Gina Rinehart has capped an extraordinary year of deal-making across the mining, energy, agribusiness and retail sectors by being named The Australian Financial Review Business Person of the Year at a ceremony in Sydney on Thursday evening. The annual AFR Business Person of the Year list recognises Australia’s top leaders, builders, pioneers and stirrers – and Mrs Rinehart could meet all four criteria. Her Hancock Prospecting empire, which is the biggest private company in the country by some margin, delivered another record year of shipments from its Roy Hill iron ore mine, with robust iron ore prices driving profits to more than $5 billion. The company has a staggering $38 billion in assets on its balance sheet, propelling Mrs Rinehart to the top of The Australian Financial Review’s Rich List for the fourth straight year.
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Minerals are not like crops of wheat or wool that grow every year. You have got to find more each year and more each decade if Australia’s standards of living are to continue.
LANG HANCOCK
Hancock Prospecting Founder
