Rio Tinto accused of allowing irreplaceable Indigenous artefacts to be dumped in rubbish tip
Aboriginal owners of Marandoo mine in WA tell Juukan Gorge inquiry they were kept in the dark for decades over destruction of materials from sacred sites
Mining giant Rio Tinto has been accused of allowing hundreds of irreplaceable Indigenous cultural artefacts from the iron ore rich Pilbara region to be thrown away at a rubbish dump in Darwin, and failed to disclose the disposal to Aboriginal traditional owners for decades.
Eastern Guruma traditional owners of Rio Tinto’s multi-billion dollar Marandoo mine, say they are “left with nothing” after finding out the company approved the destruction of artefacts salvaged from their important and sacred sites in the 1990s, and failed to tell them of the decision.
