Mining magnate Gina Rinehart shows her softer side in rare interview
Australia's richest woman walks almost hesitantly over the red dirt of the Pilbara and steps to the front of two giant pink trucks, weighing more than 200 tonnes a piece. "Hello everyone," she says in her surprisingly soft voice as she gives a little wave. The crowd of assorted mine workers, like her, are wearing pink hard hats and pink high-viz shirts. They clap politely whenever the chairman of Hancock Prospecting pauses. One of her assistants has reminded them ahead of time: no awkward silences, please.
The "pink trucks" ceremony is treated with reverence at the Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara, 1300 kilometres north-east of Perth, in part because it's treated with such reverence by the boss. Having lost too many friends to breast cancer, she decided two years ago to introduce trucks coloured pink – along with a program matching staff donations to cancer research.
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