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 January. BHP said the site was not part of its current mining operations and the cause of the rockfall was not known.
Language: English
Publisher: The Conversation
Region: Australia
Type: Article
CITATION
Holcombe., S. and Fredricks, B, (2021). ‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape. The Conversation.
Available at: https://theconversation.com/destruction-by-a-thousand-cuts-the-relentless-threat-mining-poses-to-the-pilbara-cultural-landscape-155941