Last month, to make way for an expanded mine, Rio Tinto destroyed two sacred sites in the Juukan Gorge that showed evidence of 46,000 years of continuous human habitation.
Rio Tinto, the world’s largest iron ore miner, won legal approval for this desecration in 2013 from West Australian authorities under the state’s 1972 Aboriginal Heritage Act – despite objections from the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples.