Last year FORBES said she was on her way to becoming the richest woman in the world.

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But when it fell to eighty-nine dollars, last September, not only was Rinehart suddenly no longer the richest woman in the world but reports circulated that Roy Hill workers were being laid off and contracts were being deferred.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

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.

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The world's richest woman golfer played in ten tournaments over the past 12 months and missed the cut or withdrew from half of the events.

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