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Aaron Bunch

Hancock mining riches battle shifts to legal bill fight

Parties in the battle over Hope Downs mining riches are now arguing about who foots the legal bills. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

A massive legal battle that pitted Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart against two rival mining dynasties over iron ore riches has reignited, but this time it's over legal costs.

The wealthy heirs of mining pioneer Peter Wright and engineer Don Rhodes in April won some of their claims for spoils from the massive Hope Downs mining complex, in WA's ore-rich Pilbara region.

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