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Media Release | City of Perth | Summer nights aglow with City of Light Shows

“Perth is synonymous with light and after the success of the CBD’s first drone show this February, the City of Light shows will honour our new brand and reinforce that no city lights up like Perth,” City of Perth Lord Mayor Zempilas said. The City of Light Shows are proudly presented by the Hancock Group of companies, including Hancock Prospecting, Roy Hill and Atlas Iron. The City will be illuminated over the summer with six special light shows to wow the people of Perth from November to February.

Gina Rinehart named WA Pinnacle Awards’ Business Leader of the Year

Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has been celebrated for her outstanding leadership journey after being crowned WA Pinnacle Awards’ Business Leader of the Year. Judges on Thursday night acknowledged Mrs Rinehart’s transformation of Hancock Prospecting from a company with significant potential, to a top-tier firm employing thousands of people in WA. She was also recognised for making a positive impact on the wider community, through her contribution in education, medicine and sports, and for contributing to the transformation of the iron ore industry.

AIM WA Pinnacle Awards – Executive Chairman Gina Rinehart awarded the WA Business Leader of the Year award

The AIM WA Pinnacle Awards are Western Australia’s premier business leadership excellence awards, recognising and rewarding outstanding organisations across the corporate, government, community and not-for-profit sectors in Australia that have a significant footprint in Western Australia. Executive Chairman of the Hancock Prospecting Group, Mrs. Gina Rinehart, AO, was the recipient of the WA Business Leader of the Year award.

Atlas Iron Recognised at Australian Mining Prospect Awards 2022

Roy Hill Recognised at Australian Mining Prospect Awards 2022

Roy won the Mine Project Success of the Year Award for the WHIMS Expansion Project (WHIMS 1.5). The pioneering of the Wet High Intensity Magnetic Separator (WHIMS) plant in December 2019 allowed capture of high-grade ultrafine iron ore units which would otherwise have ended up as waste.

Atlas Iron Recognised at Australian Mining Prospect Awards 2022

Atlas won the Indigenous and Community Engagement Award for it’s awarding it’s joint venture mining contract for the Miralga mine to East West Pilbara (EWP) and Ozland in August 2021. Atlas Iron’s General Manager – Projects, Stacey Brown, was recognised with the Project Lead of the Year Award for the Sanjiv Ridge and Miralga hematite iron ore mines, two mines that celebrated first ore at the height of the Covid pandemic on time and on budget.

RSLWA and Legacy WA’s Better Together Ball

Executive Chairman Mrs. Rinehart, and on behalf of the Hancock Prospecting Group, thank all of those contributing to this annual occasion, and thank the RSLWA and Legacy WA for all they do for those who served, for whom our country owes so much.

The influential and inspiring gather

12 November 2022.

Remembrance Day | 2022

11 November 2022.

Garry Korte of Hancock Prospecting Highly Commended at CEO Awards

Hancock Prospecting’s CEO Garry Korte has been recognised at the prestigious CEO Magazine Executive of the Year Awards in Sydney this evening. Garry was Highly Commended in the CEO of the Year – $100million turnover category.

ABC Pilbara host Kelly Gudgeon | Discussion on sponsorships controversy

8 November 2022.

Rinehart splashes $150m on cropping farms

MINING billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Agriculture has acquired three irrigated cropping farms spanning 6,856 hectares on the NSW northwestern slopes in a deal reportedly worth about $150 million. Of the total land, about 4,300 hectares is developed to irrigation, and the properties’ annual production averages between 25,000 and 30,000 cotton bales. A key feature of the aggregation is the sizeable water entitlements, with a combined allocation of 23,000 megalitres and about 7,000 megalitres of groundwater. Hancock Agriculture plans to use the Wee Waa aggregation to produce cotton, and follows its acquisition of the Warra Warra cropping property on Queensland’s Western Downs early this year.

Australia’s ‘nice problem’ from the Ukraine war

“It’s a nice problem to have,” said CommSec chief economist Craig James. “Demand for our commodities is soaring, and our trade surplus remains significant. Dollars are being injected into the economy at a time when the Reserve Bank is trying to slow growth in activity, income and spending. “At the same time, imports are also growing – highlighting an improvement in supply as well as higher prices. Overall, the trade situation is good news.”