There was international outrage following the blasting of the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge caves in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in May, which extracted $135 million worth of iron ore as part of Rio Tinto’s Brockman 4 mine expansion.
“So they’ve gone ahead, applied for mining licences over the area that we’ve got a moratorium on because of its high cultural sensitivity,” Ms Builth said.“And now we’re very worried … we’re pretty upset with FMG at this stage as well. Fortescue chief executive Elizabeth Gaines said the prospecting licenses were granted in 2012 and cover an area about 10 kilometres from Juukan Gorge.
The inquiry had earlier heard Rio Tinto was not allowing access to the land for cultural surveying and conservation of Indigenous artefacts.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
Traumatised………….lawyers……….money…………..really, you are talking BS. Have not seen a more desolate, horrible piece of country ever.
No one had been near these caves for decades ...now it’s so important.....bit cynical
Such hyperbole. The action was approved by WA state government a decade ago. Plenty of time to catalogue, record and preserve that history. Don't try and make me care, you had time to act and blew it. Tough.
ok NewsCorpse
I wonder if Rio Tinto was going to wreck some archaeological site in Egypt if there would be more of an outcry. Why don’t we value our own history?
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