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Fortescue rethinking expansion that endangers Australian sacred site – MINING.com
Decision comes as an Indigenous group said the project threatened heritage sites, including a 60,000 year-old rock shelter.
Australian iron ore major Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) said on Friday it would re-evaluate an expansion plan at one of its iron ore mines in the Pilbara region, after an Indigenous group said the project threatened sacred sites, including a 60,000-year-old rock shelter.
Fortescues decision comes after fellow miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO), the world’s number one iron ore producer, blew up in May a 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site in Western Australia.
While the company has ap…
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