Gina Rinehart: The Story Behind the Fortune
Gina Rinehart is Australia's richest person and executive chair of Hancock Prospecting. She inherited a debt-laden mining business from her father and rebuilt it into the country's most valuable private company, riding the iron-ore boom.
Gina Rinehart is Australia's richest person and executive chair of Hancock Prospecting. She inherited a debt-laden mining business from her father and rebuilt it into the country's most valuable private company, riding the iron-ore boom.
Gina Rinehart inherited the foundation of this fortune and has grown it substantially since taking the reins.
She studied at University of Sydney and is based in Perth, Australia.
A few of the highlights on the public record: Australia's richest person; Rebuilt an inherited, debt-laden mining business into a giant; A major investor in agriculture and cattle stations.
The fortune shows up across our lists, too: #7 on The World's Richest Women (out of 11 tracked).
On net worth alone, the closest company is Germán Larrea ($40.73B) — a reminder of how tightly bunched the very top of the wealth list really is.
Today, Gina is worth an estimated $24.00B — #31 in the world on our real-time list, a figure that moves with the latest public reporting on her holdings.