This is the league that Gina Rinehart hopes to play in with Roy Hill.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

And so Gina Rinehart, for all her personal wealth, is not a particularly big fish in the pond of Australian mining.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

Instead, four of the top five slots were occupied by people who made their money from the mining boom - Ivan Glasenberg, Andrew Forrest, Clive Palmer, and, at the very top, Gina Rinehart, Australia's first lady of iron ore.

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According to BRW, a weekly business magazine, Gina Rinehart became the richest woman in Australia in 2010, the richest person in Australia in 2011, and the richest woman in the world in 2012, with an estimated net worth of nearly thirty billion dollars.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

Georgina (Gina) Hope Rinehart, who owns a company called Hancock Prospecting and has recently been buying up Australian media properties, is the best known of these new tycoons.

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