Rio Tinto has not fulfilled core pledge five years on from Juukan, Aboriginal group says
MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Rio Tinto has not modernised its agreement with an Aboriginal group on whose lands it mines iron ore, failing to fulfil a commitment made five years ago when it destroyed an important Aboriginal heritage site, the group said on Thursday. Rio Tinto pledged to reform its business practices after it blew up the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelters in Western Australia in 2020 for an iron ore mine. Deanna McGowan of the Robe River Kuruma Aboriginal Corporation said at Rio Tinto's annual general meeting in Perth that the Mesa J mine, the company's largest on the group's lands, had been operating for 30 years.