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Rio blew up the 46,000-year-old rock shelters in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in 2020 to extract about 8 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore. , which represents the Muntulgura Guruma.
“We are extremely concerned to learn that 87 of our rock shelter sites are subject to blast management. What condition are they in? How many others have been impacted?” said Hughes, adding that traditional owners have no input or oversight of the blasts. Rio’s destruction of rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in 2020 prompted a global outcry, the departure of top executives and a parliamentary enquiry that recommended an overhaul of Australia’s Aboriginal heritage protection laws.
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