Don Rhodes was a key figure in the development of WA’s Pilbara but has been largely forgotten by history, the chief executive of his company believes. It now wants a share of Gina Rinehart’s mining royalties.
The high-stakes, multi-billion dollar battle over mining royalties that hit court this week invokes some of the names most synonymous with Australia’s resources industry: Lang Hancock, Peter Wright, Gina Rinehart.Rhodes, who ran an earth-moving and trucking business when the state’s iron ore was mostly still in the ground, is making a cameo in the
Having engineered the Rhodes-Ridley truck to haul greater loads of ore to port, Mr Rhodes is often referred to as a “truck driver” in media reports, which frustrates Mr Keady. He believes it betrays the legacy of a man whose fingerprints can be found across much of WA. At its peak, DFD Rhodes held more than 150 mineral leases in the region, having built 2000 miles of roads throughout the Pilbara. He died in the mid-1980s.“We were by far the largest mining operation in the Pilbara at the time,” Mr Keady said.
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