More than half of readers of The Australian Financial Review say superannuation funds should not dump their shares in Rio Tinto, despite the miner detonating a 46,000-year-old sacred Indigenous site in the Pilbara.

Australia’s biggest superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, expressed displeasure with Rio Tinto’s decision to proceed with blasts that destroyed ancient Indigenous shelters in Western Australia but said it is not contemplating dumping shares or divestment.