The AFR View
Something better from the rubble of Juukan Gorge
Rio Tinto once led the way in community and Indigenous relations. With a revived Australian identity, it could do so again.
Five months after carelessly blowing up one of the earliest human cultural sites anywhere in the world, chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques is leaving Rio Tinto along with the miner’s iron ore boss Chris Salisbury and corporate affairs chief Simone Niven.
The demolition of the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelters in May to extend the Brockman 4 mine in the Pilbara will leave behind the most reputationally expensive iron ore in history and an egregious story of corporate blindness.
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