MELBOURNE( REUTERS)-A Rio Tinto forerunner failed to protect 18, 000-year-old artefacts showing how people lived during the last Ice Age, part of a destruction that the mining giant kept secret for decades, an Australian aboriginal group alleged on Friday( June 25). The group said the company, despite recent pledges to improve how it protects indigenous heritage, did not come clean about the 1990s destruction at an iron ore mine that aboriginal people still do not have access to. Australian mini

MELBOURNE( Reuters)-Mining giant Rio Tinto is yet to pay compensation to the Aboriginal group whose ancient rock shelters it destroyed for an iron ore mine in Western Australia last year, company officials told a parliamentary inquiry Friday. The incident last year destroyed the historically and culturally significant site at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region that showed evidence of human habitation 46, 000 years ago into the last Ice Age. The destruction created public outrage that led to a dr