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Rio Tinto loses two more to Juukan caves

RIO Tinto chairman Simon Thompson and non-executive director Michael L’Estrange are leaving the company’s board. Both were heavily involved with the Juukan Gorge disaster in which the miner blasted an area containing two 46,000 year old rock shelters.

Noel Dyson
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Thompson has been largely panned for his handling of the disaster, while L'Estrange conducted the board inquiry into the incident that essentially found no-one to be at fault. With Thompson not staying...

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