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.

Through our longstanding partnership with our rowers, Hancock Prospecting continues to play a huge role in helping our athletes train, compete and perform at their best on the world stage.

The billionaire’s Hancock Prospecting said the segment which the ABC left up for 25 days before removing it and apologising – “normalised violent torture” of women.

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart was left feeling “dehumanised” by a vile ABC segment allegedly encouraging her murder, it can be revealed, as calls mount to overhaul the public broadcaster’s editorial standards.

Hancock Prospecting has called for changes to the ABC’s editorial standards after the broadcaster issued a belated apology over a video segment that featured violent references against Gina Rinehart.

Nationals’ leader Matt Canavan says the government should be sacking the management of the ABC if they can’t apologise

Australia’s richest person has dangled a big fish in front of our Dolphins squad.
“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).