@fanf “Mr. #Hancock is Australia's mining monarch and premier #prospector -- a blunt-talking, bulldog of a man who became a household word in #Australia years ago for his role in opening up the #IronOre rich #Pilbara area.

Since then, he has been stalking grand vision for Australian resources. Consider just a few of his ideas over the years:

* Use #NuclearBombs to blow up entire mountains of iron ore and ship it to the world's steelmakers.”

#Perth 1981 <https://csmonitor.com/1981/0727/072765.html>

Fortescue, which is the world's fourth-largest #IronOre miner, has outlined plans to stop burning #FossilFuels across its Australian iron ore operations by the end of the decade — and urged other hard-to-abate companies to follow suit.

"All those leaders who say to me, say to the world, say to their kids, 'oh you know we can't do it, my company can't do it, I can't do it, you don't understand we can't actually do it,'" Forrest said in an exclusive interview. (2/3)