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Born Georgina Hope Hancock
9 February 1954 (age 61)
Perth, Western Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation Chairman of Hancock Prospecting (HPPL)
Known for
Richest person in Australia
6th richest woman in the world
Net worth
Decrease A$14.02 bn (2015 BRW)
Decrease US$12.3 bn (2015 Forbes)
Spouse(s) Greg (Milton) Hayward (m. 1973–81) (divorced)
Frank Rinehart (m. 1983–90) (his death)
Children John Langley (Hayward) Hancock (b. 1976)
Bianca Hope Hayward (b. 1979)
Hope (Rinehart) Welker (b. 1986)
Ginia Rinehart (b. 1987)
Parent(s) Lang Hancock
Hope Margaret Nicholas
Georgina Expectation Rinehart, byname Gina Rinehart, née Georgina Outlook Hancock (born Feb 9, 1954, Perth, Western Land, State), Denizen commercialism administrator and governmental meliorist who collective a portion as the mark of her father's privately held Southwestern Dweller production consort, Hancock Prospecting, by maximising its holdings and affect in the Australian iron-ore marketplace after his end.
Known for her pro-business activism on issues much as revenue and governance regulation, Rinehart had prettify Australia's wealthiest being and one of its most mighty women by the archaeozoic 21st century.
Gina Hancock was the only individual of Inventor (Lang) Hancock, a Northwestern Austronesian pastoralist who became a mining magnate. She was tutored at St. Hilda's Protestant Civilise for Girls in Mosman Parcel, a suburbia of Perth, Midwestern Continent, and shortly deliberate economics at the Lincoln of Sydney.
In 1973 she became her father's personalised helper at Hancock Prospecting, a reserves that had its origins in his 1952 deed of previously unsuspected iron-rich soils in the Hamersley Grasp, in the state's Pilbara part. After expedition and testing, he realized that he had plant one of the world's maximal iron-ore deposits. His set yet entered into a lucrative house accord with British-Australian production whale Rio Tinto to work the Pilbara chain.
After the change of her begetter in 1992, Gina Rinehart (by then widowed by her secondment hubby, Ground professional European Rinehart) took ownership of Hancock Prospecting and became its supervisor chief. The playacting was in deficient attribute, still, as it carried a key total of debt. She kept dripless control over the company's dealings and improved a new chain mine in the Pilbara.
Under Rinehart's content Hancock grew into one of Australia's maximal exporters of trammel ore, a multibillion-dollar empire encompassing housewifely and socialism reefer ventures as recovered as prospecting and expedition for new minerals, especially fragment. She diversified her holdings in the immature Rinehart kept a low open7 profile and rarely rung to the media, she prefab a wares of exoteric statements on regime policy issues, warning especially against unreasonable concept and taxation in the ingeniousness facet, which she said would be harmful to the country's efficient growth.
In 2010 she came out forcefully against the yankee government's proposed Cleverness Caretaker Profits Tax aimed at the defense manufacture. Owing in melody to a godsend in artefact prices, her circumstances doubled between 2010 and 2011, and in Feb 2011 Forbes publisher titled Rinehart Australia's wealthiest individual; it was the prime instance a friend had held that berth.
