The Pilbara icon “shot his mouth off” at a meeting of associates in 1972 and later wrote to one of them try to put things right, heard the trial where billions of dollars of mining royalties currently flowing to Gina Rinehart are at stake.
Pilbara icon Lang Hancock exaggerated his role in the development of the West Australian mining industry and minimised the contribution of his associates, a court has been told.
Rhodes has been described as a forgotten pioneer of WA’s mining industry in a history dominated by Hancock and his business partner Peter Wright, whose family is now seeking an equal share in royalties from the Hope Downs mining operations. He went on to say in the letter that Rhodes had “fathered the manganese industry in WA”, information he said he had passed on to prime ministers.
that the company founder’s contribution to the state’s mining industry, and other WA infrastructure, had been largely overlooked.
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