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.
Hancock Prospecting, of which Mrs Rinehart is executive chair, is fighting parts of a complex court ruling, lodging appeals last week against some of the court orders related to the decision, including findings related to decades-old partnership contracts between her company and Wright Prospecting and DFD Rhodes.
