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Grovelling apologies fail to get Rio Tinto out of a hole – The Guardian
The destruction of an ancient site, and the pay of a departed boss, will be hot topics with the miner’s investors this week
As acts of corporate vandalism go, Rio Tintos obliteration of a sacred site in Western Australia is right up there. The expansion of an iron ore mine knowingly destroyed a cave containing 46,000 years of human history. It had yielded a 4,000-year-old hair plait that showed a direct genetic link with living descendants.
The scandal has already cost Rio Tinto a chief executive, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, and other bosses, but the backlash from the destruction of the Juukan Gorge is still reverberating,…
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