Mining company Rio Tinto has apologized for destroying one of Australia's oldest Aboriginal heritage sites in order to expand an iron ore project and said that it was urgently reviewing plans at other sites in the Juukan Gorge area.
Blasting associated with the expansion of Rio Tinto's Brockman 4 iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia over the weekend devastated the Juukan Gorge caves, which date back as much as 46,000 years.Local indigenous people had been opposing the planned expansion - which...