[1] During the late 1930s, Wright joined with Lang Hancock, a former schoolmate,[3] in a mining venture in the north-west of Western Australia, beginning a partnership that lasted for several decades, named Hanwright.
Wright Prospecting also argued that Hope Downs 4, 5 and 6 was a shared Hanwright asset — worth billions of dollars.
[3] In 1969 Wright and Hancock commenced publication in Perth of a weekly newspaper The Sunday Independent principally to help further their mining interests.
Hancock largely relinquishing his interest in it in the early 70s but Wright continued publishing it until selling it to owners of The Truth in 1984.
The agreements entitled Hancock and Wright 2.5 percent of revenue generated by Rio Tinto's Hamersley Iron mines.