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Rio Tinto blew up Juukan Gorge rock shelters ‘to access higher volumes of high-grade ore’ – The Guardian
Mining company tells Senate inquiry it proceeded with detonation despite knowing one of the shelters was of ‘the highest archaeological significance in Australia’
Rio Tinto could have chosen one of three options to expand its iron ore mine that would not have damaged a 46,000-year-old highly significant Aboriginal heritage site in Juukan Gorge, but chose a fourth option that did damage the rock shelters in order to access higher volumes of high-grade ore.
In a submission to a Senate inquiry on the destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters, Rio Tinto acknowledged that various opportunities were missed to re-evaluate the mine plan in light of this mate…
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