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

Prospecting, saying Wright Prospecting never relinquished the assets to Hancock Prospecting. Hancock Prospecting rejected the claim

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

Prospecting, with Justice Jennifer Smith ruling half belongs to the Wright family. "Wright Prospecting won half

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

Prospecting, retained ownership of the mammoth Hope Downs iron ore project, defeating competing claims from her children and Wright

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Prospecting has [lost its bid](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/15/gina-rinehart-hancock-prospecting-royalties-wright-family-heirs-supreme-court-ntwnfb) to retain royalties from the mammoth Hope Downs iron ore project and will be forced to pay Wright