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Resourcing Tomorrow: 2024 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Winners of the prestigious 2024 Resourcing Tomorrow Outstanding Achievement Awards have been announced at a spectacular finale of Europe’s premier mining event held at the London Guildhall.

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Gina Rinehart recognised in 2024 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Hancock Prospecting chair ‘a true champion for the cause of mining’

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Gina Rinehart to pay big bonuses to Roy Hill mine workers, plus huge Christmas giveaway

Bonuses worth tens of thousands of dollars are about to land in the bank accounts of workers at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore mine, under one of the most generous resources industry profit-sharing schemes in the world.

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Congratulations Mrs Gina Rinehart AO – Mines and Money Lifetime Achievement Award!

Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, received the highly acclaimed ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Mines and Money Resourcing Tomorrow Outstanding Achievement Awards on 5 December 2024.

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Plibersek’s EPA a threat to mining, claims WA premier

West Australian Premier Roger Cook said a deal crunched between Tanya Plibersek and the Greens to establish an environment protection agency would have posed a risk to the state’s mining industry and nation’s prosperity.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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Happy 70th Birthday Year Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd

25 November is another important date in the Hancock calendar - it is the date that Lang Hancock and his wife, Hope (nee Nicholas) founded Hancock Prospecting.

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Rinehart’s McPhee breaks ground

Gina Rinehart’s Atlas Iron has celebrated the official turning of first soil at the McPhee Creek iron ore mine in Western Australia.

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Ground broken at McPhee

Yesterday marked an exciting and important milestone with the official turning of first soil for our newest iron ore mine – McPhee Creek.

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Exciting News – 2GR Wagyu’s Gold Medal!

We are thrilled to announce that on 11 November 2024, Hancock Agriculture’s 2GR Wagyu won a Gold Medal at the World Steak Challenge, London, UK, 2024!

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Bannister Downs Dairy Wins “Champion Cream” and “Grand Champion Dairy Product” at 2024 Australian Grand Dairy Awards

Bannister Downs Dairy have been awarded the “Champion Cream” title for their premium double cream and the overall award, “Grand Champion” at the 2024 Australian Grand Dairy Awards, held at the Melbourne Showgrounds on October 30th.

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Atlas Iron defers Ridley investment call as ‘onerous’ approvals slow Gina Rinehart’s foray into magnetite

Hancock Prospecting has deferred part of its plans to tap into the WA magnetite market and delayed a final investment decision on its proposed Ridley mine, pinning the move on approvals uncertainty and water supply.

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FY2024 Results for Atlas Iron Pty Ltd

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Executive Chair of Hancock Prospecting on leaders and traits she admires

Great leaders are decisive. Preferably after considering the positives and negatives for the decision. Good leaders are most often those who have the courage of their convictions, not those who change their tune based on what is thought may be popular at the time. There’s much truth in the ...

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