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Rio Tinto CEO to leave over destruction of Australian sites

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 6:03 PM

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will leave the Anglo-Australian mining giant by March over the destruction of Australian Indigenous sacred sites to access iron ore, the company said on Friday.

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