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.
Rowing Australia selectors are optimistic about the 10-boat Australian team selected for the 2026 Under 23 World Championships in Germany, with the squad supported by Hancock Prospecting, RA Patron Mrs Gina Rinehart AO, the AIS and the Australian Sports Commission.
Picture a part of your own country so full of promise it could lift the living standards of every working household from Darwin to Alice, Townsville and Cairns, to Carnarvon and Kununurra — and yet our north sits three quarters dormant, its potential smothered under rules written by people who have never worked there.
The Territory’s largest private investor Gina Rinehart has backed the Finocchiaro government’s call to the Albanese Government that it needs to unlock northern Australia’s dormant potential through Special Economic Zones.
Gina Rinehart’s $72 million investment in Australian imaging technology capable of detecting both cancer and contaminants in iron ore.
There’s something genuinely rewarding about seeing Bannister Downs Dairy behind the counter at cafes across the state. Quality dairy, paired with quality coffee, made and poured right here in WA.
“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).
