When she was small, they lived in the Pilbara, forty miles north of Wittenoom.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

At the only shop we pass all day a gas station and grocery at the junction with a road heading northwest to Wittenoom and the Hamersley Range Mudronja greets a middle-aged black man in a cowboy hat.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

The blue-asbestos mine that Hancock ran in the nineteen-thirties and forties at Wittenoom is thought to have caused hundreds of asbestos-related deaths, many of them among its largely Aboriginal workforce, but Hancock never accepted the medical connection, let alone responsibility.

NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter