Gina Rinehart

Arafura Rare Earths has moved one step closer to a final investment decision for its Nolans Project with a $150 million commitment from the Export-Import Bank of Korea.

ASX-listed SRG Global has acquired $225 million worth of contracts across Australia with existing clients.

Multi-generational farming families are making the switch from custodians of land to stewards of wealth.

A Perth Basin gas project jointly owned by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Energy and John Poynton-chaired Strike Energy has been granted a key state approval.

Shares in West Perth-based gold producer Catalyst Metals closed trade up 23 per cent on Wednesday to $1.41, following news it produced 110,000 ounces of gold during the 2024 financial year.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and its joint venture partners have put a $5 billion price tag on developing a major magnetite mine in the Yilgarn.

Arafura Rare Earths is inching closer to making a final investment decision on its Northern Territory project after securing its remaining debt funding.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has upped her stake in Lynas Rare Earths, with her foothold in the critical minerals player now worth $404 million.

A Gina Rinehart-backed battery metals company has begun commissioning its lithium million hydroxide testing plant in central Germany.

Simply calling something ‘green’ doesn’t mean much when it comes to convincing a customer to pay more than for a similar non-green product.

Founding Azure Minerals managing director and chief executive Tony Rovira has stepped down from the company, following this year’s acquisition by Hancock Prospecting and SQM.

Arafura Rare Earths has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saskatchewan Research Council, as it aims to add further value to its shovel-ready project in the Northern Territory.

Gina Rinehart wants an Israel-style iron dome protecting the Pilbara’s multi-billion-dollar resources assets from foreign attacks.

Gina Rinehart has warned against policies that attack Australia’s “mining golden geese”, after Hancock Prospecting was awarded long awaited approvals for its McPhee iron ore project.

WA Defence Industry Minister Paul Papalia has endorsed the thinking behind Gina Rinehart’s Pilbara ‘iron dome’ concept, as the state pushes for protection of its economic heartland.

Annual production at Hancock Prospecting’s proposed Mulga Downs iron ore mine in the Pilbara has been cut from 20 million tonnes to 12mt after the miner slashed the project footprint.

Gina Rinehart’s Atlas Iron has reported a strong lift in both revenue and net profit but continues to be frustrated by slow approvals for its planned mine projects.

Record iron ore shipments have driven a healthy profit for Roy Hill and Gina Rinehart, who has once again taken aim at regulation she says is burdening the industry’s prosperity.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has struck a deal to buy Mineral Resources’ Perth Basin gas assets for up to $1.13 billion and pledged to accelerate their development.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has netted a bumper $5.57 billion profit after recording one of the highest revenues in the company’s history.

Hancock Prospecting has disclosed how much it stumped up to buy a majority stake in the Bunbury Farmers Market.

Shares in Gina Rinehart-backed Vulcan Energy closed trade up 13 per cent to $5.85, following news it had secured €100 million, or $162.3 million, in funding.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has grown its stake in Las Vegas-headquartered producer MP Materials, building on the mining magnate’s rare earths portfolio.

An Indian government-backed company which part-owns a $5-billion iron ore project controlled by Hancock Prospecting has been released from ASX purgatory.

Gina Rinehart has stepped up her calls for Australia to cut regulation and taxes while also borrowing from US president-elect Donald Trump with the pro-oil slogan ‘Drill Baby Drill’.

The falling iron ore price has had a big impact on WA’s wealthiest.

Battery metals player Vulcan Energy Resources will tap investors for $164 million as it moves towards commencing work at its Phase One Lionheart project.

Hancock Prospecting has completed its $1.13-billion acquisition of two Mineral Resources oil and gas exploration permits.

ANALYSIS: As MinRes prepares for a future without its founder, Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has moved on its gas business and countercyclically acted on an appetite for lithium.

Gina Rinehart-backed Arafura Rare Earths has received an additional $200 million in funding from the federal government towards its Nolans project in the Northern Territory.

The state’s Environmental Protection Authority has signed off on a request by Gina Rinehart’s Atlas Iron to amend the proposal for its Ridley magnetite mine, expanding the project footprint.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has widened her stake in Lynas Rare Earths, boosting her interest in the company to almost $500 million.

Hancock Prospecting spent $500,000 on donations to arms of the Liberal Party last financial year, in search of a government "more attuned to Australians".

Anthony Albanese says an exemption from the US’ 25 per cent steel and aluminium import tariffs is “under consideration” by the Trump Administration, after the two leaders spoke.

There have been big shifts in the ranking of WA’s largest, and most profitable, private companies over the past year.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has set her sights on new exploration ground in Saudi Arabia as the Kingdom looks to lessen its oil dependency.

Australian business leaders have warned of global supply chain upheaval despite avoiding the worst of US President Donald Trump’s tariff rollout.

Nonogenerian Arnold Carter is among the last people who remember Port Hedland before iron ore. His business journey has taken him from filling Lang Hancock’s plane to championing the town’s history.

Roger Cook’s name has been a regular feature on the annual list of Western Australia’s most influential business and political players published by Business News.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton says US President Donald Trump has treated Anthony Albanese with disdain, and vowed to “not give anything away” in any negotiations with the US.