The relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape
- Written by Sarah Holcombe, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Just as the parliamentary inquiry into Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelters was reconvening in Canberra, another culturally significant site was damaged at one of BHP’s iron ore mines in the Pilbara.
This latest rock shelter, a registered site for the Banjima peoples, was reportedly damaged by a rockfall in late...
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