Rio Tinto Halts Mine Work as Second Indigenous Site Damaged
- Incident comes three years after Juukan Gorge destruction
- No. 2 miner has been pressured to improve corporate culture
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Rio Tinto Group has halted some work on an iron ore mine in Western Australia after an Indigenous rock shelter was damaged, three years after the company faced executive exits and public anger over the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves.
Operations were paused last month at the Nammuldi site 150 meters (roughly 490 feet) from the cave, after a large rock and scrub tree fell from an overhang above its entrance, Rio said in a statement. Sydney-listed shares in the world’s second-largest mining company fell as much as 2.9% on Friday, after a negative week for iron ore prices.