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Rio Tinto should pay for sacred caves blast — inquiry

Dec 9, 2020

Source: https://www.mining.com/rio-tinto-should-pay-for-sacred-caves-blast-inquiry/

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Rio blew up the 46,000-year-old rock shelters in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in May to extract about 8 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore. (Image courtesy of Rio Tinto.)

An Australian parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site in May this year has urged the company to halt all mining activities in the area, undertake rehabilitation of the area and review all of its agreements with traditional owners.

The interim report, published on Wednesday, also concludes that land owners of the Juukan Gorge shelters were not sufficiently supported by the federal and Western Australian state governments, native title law or even their own lawyers.

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Rio blew up the 46,000-year-old rock shelters in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in May to extract about 8 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore. (Image courtesy of Rio Tinto.)

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