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Rio Tinto chairman to step down over caves blast scandal

Mar 3, 2021

Source: https://www.mining.com/rio-tinto-chairman-to-step-down-over-caves-blast-scandal/

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Simon Thompson is the latest high-profile departure linked to the miner’s destruction of ancient rock shelters in Western Australia. (Image courtesy of Rio Tinto.)

Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) chairman Simon Thompson became on Wednesday the latest high-profile executive to announce his departure amid backlash for the company’s destruction of two 46,000-year-old rock sacred shelters in Western Australia last year.

Thompson, a former geologist and investment banker, said he will not seek re-election as a director at the 2022 annual general meetings, as he was “ultimately accountable” for the blasting at Juukan Gorge to expand an iron ore mine.

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Simon Thompson is the latest high-profile departure linked to the miner’s destruction of ancient rock shelters in Western Australia. (Image courtesy of Rio Tinto.)

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