Gina Rinehart

Georgina Hope “Gina” Rinehart is an Australian mining magnate and heiress. Rinehart is Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately-owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock.

• Australia’s richest citizen built her wealth on iron ore, an industry that continues to expand robustly.
• Rinehart continues to be embroiled in litigation with two of her children, and also with Wright Prospecting, owned by her father’s original partner.
• The daughter of high profile iron-ore explorer Lang Hancock, Gina took her late father’s bankrupted estate and rebuilt it into something much larger.
• The biggest piece of her fortune comes from the Roy Hill mining project, which started shipments to Asia in 2015.
• The mining magnate is also Australia’s third-largest cattle producer, with a portfolio of properties across the country.