Rio Tinto: why the sacking of three executives isn't enough for mining investors
by Lorena Allam, Ben Butler and Calla Wahlquist from Environment | The Guardian on (#581D5)
Australia's biggest superannuation funds also demand the miner guarantee the protection of culturally important sites
Rio Tinto has sacked three senior executives, including the global CEO, as penance for destroying a 46,000-year-old archaeological and sacred site in Western Australia's Pilbara, but shareholder and Indigenous groups insist the move must signal the start of a major overhaul of the way all mining companies operate in the region.
One of Australia's biggest superannuation funds says the departure of CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques, head of iron ore Chris Salisbury, and corporate affairs chief Simone Niven won't be enough to restore investor confidence.
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