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For Rio’s boss, cave blast is a sore that keeps weeping – Sydney Morning Herald
Rio Tinto boss Jean-Jacques Sebastien didn’t rule out the possibility there would be consequences for the board and the executives over the company’s destruction of a 46,000-year-old Indigenous cave site.
The large shareholders that have made public pronouncements on Rio have clearly registered their displeasure about governance but also about the pointy-end consequences – the potential to impair Rios ability to secure approvals for future mining developments.
Jacques didnt rule out the possibility there would be consequences for the board and the executives but wasnt prepared to make any predictions until the inquiry was complete.
“We are absolutely committed to understand what happened to lea…
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