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(FILES) This handout file photo taken on May 15, 2020 and released by the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation and received by AFP on May 27, 2020 shows Juukan Gorge in Western Australia -- one of the earliest known sites occupied by Aboriginals in Australia. - Rio Tinto announced the resignation of its CEO and two top lieutenants on September 11, 2020 over the mining giant's destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand an iron ore mine in Australia. The Anglo-Australian firm faced a growing investor revolt over the destruction of the sacred site in the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia's remote Pilbara region -- one of the earliest known locations inhabited by Australia's indigenous people. (Photo by Handout / PKKP Aboriginal Corporation / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / PKKP ABORIGINAL CORPORATION" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES

Rio Tinto begs for forgiveness

The Juukan Gorge cave blast scandal continues to haunt mining giant Rio Tinto, which used its annual general meeting to again apologise profusely.

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