Lawyers for Mr Hancock and his sister, Bianca Rinehart, claimed that Hancock Prospecting’s stake in Hope Downs should belong to Lang Hancock’s grandchildren.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart’s eldest children have made a shock appearance at the WA Supreme Court in a high-stakes civil trial that has pitted them against their mother and two other mining dynasties.
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Senior Rio Tinto executives and Gina Rinehart discussed in 2005 the risk that their iron ore joint venture may attract a claim from another Perth dynasty.
Rio Tinto has scolded the mining dynasty fighting for a slice of its Hope Downs iron ore hub for casting doubt over what it knew while inking a deal with billionaire Gina Rinehart.