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Has Rio Tinto learnt its lesson from the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves? – ABC News
Outraged investors have forced Rio Tinto’s chief executive to resign over the destruction of Indigenous cultural heritage in the Pilbara. The reason why is multi-layered, write Andrew Hopkins and Deanna Kemp.
Outraged investors have forced the board of Rio Tinto to sack its chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques along with two of the senior executives partially responsible for the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, which contained evidence of human habitation 46,000 years ago.
Why did the company commit this egregious act of cultural vandalism? There are several layers to the answer.
First, Rio Tinto’s iron ore division was under extreme production pre…
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