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Gina Rinehart’s son says he wants to be a ‘united family’ in olive branch to mother after court ruling

ownership of the mammoth Hope Downs iron ore project, defeating competing claims from her children and Wright Prospecting. John Hancock, who has been [embroiled in a two-decade feud with his mother](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/20/inside-the-bitter-billion-dollar-feud-tearing-gina-rinehart-john-hancock-family-apart-ntwnfb),

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting to pay hundreds of millions’ worth of royalties to rival family in ‘half loss half win’

Hope Downs iron ore project and will be forced to pay Wright Prospecting half of its royalties from the project, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In a landmark ruling in the Western Australian supreme

Australia's richest person must share part of her mining fortunes, court rules

projects. The court heard Rinehart's father Lang Hancock and his business partner Peter Wright - who were considered iron ore pioneers in WA - drew up an agreement to manage their joint interests under a business

Gina Rinehart has been forced to share her riches. But will she fight on or end the family feud?

projects, but the verdict on royalties means Hancock and Rio Tinto are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars to the family of Peter Wright, going back to when the mine first began

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Hope Downs iron ore project and will be forced to pay Wright Prospecting half of its royalties from the project. However the company is - declaring victory against Rinehart’s children after retaining ownership