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Hanwright

Prospecting partnership of Lang Hancock and Peter Wright.

Lang Hancock and school friend Peter Wright jointly promoted Pilbara iron finds. A June 1963 agreement gave the partners a 2.5% perpetual royalty on ore mined by Hamersley Iron; neither partner owned the operating consortium.

Alternative names

Hancock & Wright
Wright Prospecting partnership

Type

PROSPECTING PARTNERSHIP

Location

Western Australia / Pilbara

Founded

1963

Relationships

Evidence-backed record links without heavy nesting.

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Organisations

Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd

organisation
Partnered with
Supported
Medium

Historical royalty relationship: Hanwright held royalty interests associated with Hamersley Iron. No royalty or paid-royalties vocabulary is available, so Partnered with is an imperfect proxy.

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People

person
Had as partner

Langley Frederick George “Lang” Hancock

Prospector and pastoralist · 1909-06-10–1992-03-27