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Atlas awards mining contract for McPhee Creek
Iron-ore miner has awarded mining contractor MACA a three-year mining contract at its McPhee Creek project, in the Pilbara. McPhee Creek is located 100 km from the Roy Hill mine, and is expected to produce at a rate of between 9.5-million and 9.7-million tonnes a year. Primary crushed ore from McPhee ...
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Atlas Iron celebrates International Women’s day
Today, on International Women’s Day, Atlas Iron celebrates all of our female employees and recognises the skills and talents they bring to our business. We are exceptionally lucky to have a role model in our Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart, who has shown us how determination, drive and perseverance ...
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International Women’s Day 2023
Each year, Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill broadcasts its inaugural viewing of its Women in Mining video. The video shares the real stories of women across the miner’s operations and acknowledges their outstanding contributions. “Women at Roy Hill work at the only mine in the world where technology and ...
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Building an exceptional future | committed to developing opportunities for women across our operation
Women at Roy Hill work at the only mine in the world where technology and operational responsibility combine to not only achieve a safe work place, but also to join in the battle against breast cancer. Gina Rinehart AO established Australia's first breast cancer foundation in the early 1990's, one ...
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Hancock Prospecting | Building an Exceptional Future
Women play an essential role at all levels of Hancock Prospecting. Executive Chairman, Mrs Gina Rinehart, is an industry leader, providing a role model and inspiration for other women. We are proud to be an organisation committed to developing opportunities for women across our operations.
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Major miners to sponsor 2023 Prospect Awards
To be held in Brisbane on November 9, the awards seek to reward those in the mining industry who are excelling and going above and beyond. Two of these awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Discovery of the Year award, are being sponsored by Hancock Prospecting subsidiaries Roy Hill and ...
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OLDENDORFF WELCOMES CAPESIZE BULKER GINA OLDENDORFF
OLDENDORFF has named its latest Capesize newbuild after Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart. “Oldendorff carried the first shipment of iron ore from Roy Hill in December 2015, and since then has carried more than 46.6 million tonnes of Roy ore over 244 shipments, as well as shipments from Atlas,” Roy Hill said in ...
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Ian Henschke Chief Advocate for National Seniors Australia emphasises that the work bonus for pensioners should just be the beginning of national reforms | A Current Affair
Ian Henschke from National Seniors Australia. I think we need to recognise that we've got a jobs crisis in Australia, 450,000 plus jobs going begging and we've got 4.5 million Australians over 65. Ian says the work bonus should just be the beginning of major reforms in the system. He'd like to see ...
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Fireworks to replace drones in City of Light show
Update information for this weekends wonderful City of Light - City of Perth celebrations.
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Perth City of Light Show proudly presented by Hancock Prospecting, Atlas Iron Pty Ltd and Roy Hill
This weekend will see the series’s final instalment, featuring a double night at Elizabeth Quay on 18 and 19 February. Bring the family down and enjoy the food trucks, free hula-hoop workshop, silent disco and more.
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Let people work | By Ian Henschke | Chief Advocate National Seniors Australia
AUSTRALIA is facing a workforce crisis it’s never seen before. Job vacancies are approaching half a million, dragging business and economic growth down and fuelling a cost-of-living crisis. The hardest hit sectors include agriculture, hospitality, mining, tourism, and the caring industries. The Federal Government has raised the yearly permanent ...
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Mrs Rinehart christens latest Oldendorff vessel
The newest Oldendorff Carriers capesize vessel has today been christened “Gina Oldendorff” after Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, who had the honour this morning of christening the huge ship, in the traditional way, with a bottle of champagne. Oldendorff carried the first shipment of iron ore from Roy Hill in December 2015, ...
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Gina Rinehart on work, loyalty and 30 years in mining
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.
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Gina Rinehart gives millions to employees
Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is giving away millions to lucky Hancock Prospecting employees. In recognition of her 41 years at Hancock, as well as her 69th birthday this week, Australia’s richest person is giving away $100,000 to 41 employees in an act of charity that will cost her $4.1 million. The mining ...
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Billionaire Gina Rinehart gives away millions to workers in birthday raffle
Gina Rinehart will shower Hancock Prospecting staff with $4.1 million in bonuses. The mining billionaire will celebrate her 69th birthday by giving 41 lucky Hancock Prospecting workers $100,000 each, as part of a $4.1 million raffleThe 41 cash prizes represent each of the 41 years she has worked at Hancock Prospecting, which she now controls in ...
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Gina Rinehart will give $4.1 million in bonuses to 41 staff in raffle
Australia’s richest person, said to be worth $34 billion, will hand $100,000 each to 41 lucky workers at her company, Hancock Prospecting, to mark her 41 years at the firmMrs Rinehart has been paying out bonuses worth many tens of thousands of dollars a year on top of some of the highest wages ...
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Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart is giving away $100,000 bonuses to workers to mark her 41 years at her company
Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart will hand out another $4.1million in bonuses to employees of her mining company as she marks 41 years at the firm. Ms Rinehart will give 41 Hancock Prospecting staff members $100,000 each this week, with a raffle to determine the lucky recipients. Rinehart has thanked her workers for ...
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Rinehart gives away millions to workers in birthday raffle
Australia’s richest person is set to give away 41 prizes in all, or $4.1 million, with about 4000 workers spread across her private company’s mining, energy and agriculture divisions in the running“The mining industry pays by far the highest wages in Australia, close to double the average in other industries. ...
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