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The two-bedroom apartment in Edgecliff’s Eastpoint tower sold for $3 million.

Perth mining billionaire buys Sydney bolthole for $3 million

Mining billionaire Leonie Baldock has bought a $3 million Sydney pad; philanthropist Judith Neilson has sold her designer Chippendale guest house; and the Hunter Valley’s Brindley Park is available for $15 million.

  • Lucy Macken

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Mining business partners Peter Wright, left, with Lang Hancock in 1967.

$50,000 an hour of iron ore royalties for heirs with the Wright stuff

Record iron ore prices gifted the heirs of Lang Hancock’s business partner Peter Wright $436 million in royalties last financial year.

  • Peter Milne
Gina Rinehart and her company Hancock Prospecting, started by her father Lang (inset far right), is defending claims to its Hope Downs iron ore tenement in the Pilbara from Wright Prospecting, started by Peter Wright (inset left).

Clash of the dynasties: Legal showdown looms over Lang Hancock's multi-billion dollar iron ore tenement

It has been decades in the making, but now one of Western Australia’s most famous chapters in its mining history finally looks set to be tested, with billions of dollars in iron ore rights at stake.

  • Aja Styles

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