Gina Rinehart

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Georgina Hope Rinehart (née Hancock, born 9 February 1954) is an Australian mining magnate, businesswoman and heiress. She is the chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately owned mining company founded by her father, Lang Hancock. Rinehart was born in Perth, and spent her early years in the Pilbara region. She boarded at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls. After dropping out of University of Sydney, she went to work at Hancock Prospecting. When Lang Hancock died in 1992, Rinehart succeeded him as the new chair, as Lang Hancock's only child. In the 2010s, Rinehart began investing in areas outside the mining industry, such as in Ten Network Holdings and Fairfax Media, and bought several cattle stations; she sold her shares in Fairfax and all cattle stations within a decade. Rinehart is Australia's richest person. Her wealth reached around A$29 billion in 2012, at which point she overtook Christy Walton as the world's richest woman and was included on the Forbes list of The World's...

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