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Lawyers for the Anglo-Australian firm have been in the states Supreme Court seeking to fend off claims over billions of dollars in iron ore royalties.

Rio Tinto has thrown a veil of secrecy over the final day of the marathon Hope Downs civil trial, which was set to conclude with a showdown over who should foot the royalties bill.

A judge has reminded Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart that the court will have the last word as...

Australia’s wealthiest person has urged the federal government to slash the fuel excise and says councils should freeze rates for six months to help beat cost-of-living woes.

Documents unearthed in a multibillion-dollar court fight reveal Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting warned a syndicate of bankers that other dynasties may chase royalties.

Fortescue has sent its first shipment of African iron ore to Asia, while Rio vows to spend half a decade proving up Australia’s next big mine.

Mining icon Lang Hancock thought he could do as he pleased with assets held by his company, but he breached his fiduciary duties, Gina Rinehart’s lawyers say.

Fran Keaney, Joe White, and Tom Russo, the songwriting, singing, and guitaring part of Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, are late. Not for rock and roll reasons though.

The brawl has been described as a lawyers’ picnic, but are the WA mining dynasties wrangling over Hope Downs dining out on public resources?

Previously unseen documents shed new light on the fight between Gina Rinehart and two of her children, and their claim to the flagship Roy Hill mine that has made them all billionaires.