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Billions at stake as Rinehart battles over handshake deal

Key Points

  • Legend has it that Lang Hancock drew up a handwritten note splitting the assets in two.
  • Billions of dollars in royalties are at stake.
  • The case before Justice Jennifer Smith will run for four months.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart and the nation’s fourth-richest woman, Angela Bennett, square off on Monday to settle their differences in a dispute over billions of dollars in iron ore assets and royalties.

They are the billionaire daughters of two schoolmates-turned-business partners who pegged mining tenements that decades later have produced wealth beyond their wildest dreams.

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Brad Thompson was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review
Tom Rabe is the WA political correspondent, based in Perth. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.rabe@nine.com.au

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