Fortescue Ordered to Pay $108 Million to Aboriginal Group

Fortescue Ltd., one of the world’s biggest iron ore miners, has been ordered to pay over A$150 million ($108 million) in damages to an Aboriginal group after being found to have operated the Solomon Hub project on their land without consent.

The miner was ordered by Justice Stephen Burley of the Federal Court of Australia to pay compensation for cultural and economic losses to a group of indigenous people in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, represented by Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corp. The group had sought as much as A$1.8 billion in compensation.