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Georgina Hope Rinehart

Australian business executive
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Also known as: Georgina Hope Hancock, Gina Rinehart
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Category: History & Society
Byname:
Gina Rinehart
Née:
Georgina Hope Hancock
Born:
February 9, 1954, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (age 70)
Notable Family Members:
father Langley George Hancock
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Georgina Hope Rinehart (born February 9, 1954, Perth, Western Australia, Australia) Australian business executive and political activist who built a fortune as the head of her father’s privately held Western Australian mining company, Hancock Prospecting, by increasing its holdings and influence in the Australian iron-ore market after his death. Known for her pro-business activism on issues such as taxation and government regulation, Rinehart had become Australia’s wealthiest person and one of its most powerful women by the early 21st century. Gina Hancock was the only child of Langley (Lang) Hancock, a Western Australian pastoralist who became a mining magnate. She ...(100 of 417 words)

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