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.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Western Australia has officially welcomed a new Pilatus PC-12 PRO aircraft to its Jandakot base – the first of its kind to join the RFDS WA fleet.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service will be able to reach West Australians in need even quicker than before with a first-of-its-kind plane taking to the skies.

Mrs Gina Rinehart said the new aircraft would help save lives where time and distance matter most, calling it “essential” for families living and working in remote areas.

Today, Gina Rinehart, Hancock Prospecting and Hancock Agriculture, honour the birthday of our companies founder, and his contribution to the Pilbara, to West Australia and Australia, Langley George Hancock.

Building a new program of this nature would not be possible without the unwavering support of Rowing Australia Patron Mrs Gina Rinehart AO and Hancock Prospecting, along with our valued partners
“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).