Stories We Missed in 2020: Rio Tinto's Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Proved (Again) Nothing Is Sacred Except Profit
Stories We Missed in 2020: Rio Tinto’s Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Proved (Again) Nothing Is Sacred Except Profit Mining executives knew the spiritual value of the ancient Indigenous site – and they blew it up anyway On 24 May 2020, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, the mining giant Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred site: the Juukan Gorge rock shelters. The traditional owners of the land, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP), only learnt about the company’s intentions 11 days before the blast; they issued an urgent request to the Western ...
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