Hancock Prospecting include a world-class agribusiness business, which has a long and proud history in agriculture, on both sides of executive chairman, Gina Rinehart’s, family.
Hancock Prospecting is committed to investing in local rural communities, developing and implementing innovative, industry-leading farming practices and driving export quality and growth.
Prior to mining exploration, the family owned and operated for decades a number of iconic cattle stations in WA including Ashburton Downs and Hamersley Station. Hancock’s Executive Chairman, Gina Rinehart, grew up on Hamersley station.
Hancock Prospecting has significantly grown the agricultural portfolio with strategic investment in pastoral stations and agribusinesses.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has announced it will contribute $200 million to buy properties to help Australia’s homeless veterans and war heroes, reportedly the largest ever private commitment for Australian veterans.

Gina Rinehart has described as a “national crisis and disgrace” the number of homeless veterans and war heroes in Australia, as Hancock Prospecting announced a $200 million commitment to buy them homes.

In a move to recognise a national crisis and national disgrace, Gina Rinehart and Hancock Prospecting are contributing $200 million to buy properties to help Australia’s homeless veterans and war heroes, the biggest ever private commitment for Australian veterans.

AS a multitude of issues, compounded by war in the Middle East, grip the agricultural machinery sector and depress confidence, dealers and distributors are asking for clear direction in an uncertain landscape
“Hancock Prospecting is built on good Australian values where loyalty and performance are rewarded. Our vision is to create pathways to business and employment opportunity for veterans and ex military across Hancock Prospecting, That the veterans feel valued and preferentially treated when they approach us and that we create a real sense of recognition of military service to the country for which they served which for the majority will be Australia.”
Hancock Prospecting Executive Chairperson,
Gina Rinehart AO
Hancock Prospecting is Australia’s most successful private company.
We have varied and exciting career opportunities across our mining and agricultural businesses, offering avenues for people new to the industry, supporting diversity in our workplaces.
We are investing in Australian jobs and look forward to you joining with us to continue to build prosperity for our great nation, and to set yourself up now and into the future.
We are the sons of Australia,
Of the men who fashioned the land,
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them, hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
Verse of patriotic poem by Dame Mary Gilmore. Published in The Australian Women’s Weekly, June 1940 during the Second World War (1939-1945).