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Rio Tinto chair gets emotional on third anniversary of cave blast

Yesterday was the three-year annivesary of Rio Tinto's destruction of the culturally significant Juukan Gorge rock shelters in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Rio Tinto chair gets emotional on third anniversary of cave blast Rio Tinto chair gets emotional on third anniversary of cave blast Rio Tinto chair gets emotional on third anniversary of cave blast Rio Tinto chair gets emotional on third anniversary of cave blast Rio Tinto chair gets emotional on third anniversary of cave blast

Juukan Gorge prior to May 24, 2020

Rio chairman Dominic Barton, who was not with the company at the time of the incident, addressed the Financial Review Mining Summit 2023 from Beijing on Wednesday and acknowledged the anniversary.

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