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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard

Traditional owners left to ‘pick up the pieces’ after sacred rock shelter damaged in Rio Tinto blast

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A rock shelter sacred to the Muntulgura Guruma people was damaged by Rio Tinto near its iron ore mine outside Tom Price, in WA’s Pilbara region. Photograph: Krystle Wright/The Guardian

Traditional owners say they are being left to “pick up the pieces” in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region after mining company Rio Tinto damaged a rock shelter sacred to the Muntulgura Guruma people.

Rio Tinto discovered the disturbance near its Nammuldi iron ore mine, about 60km from Tom Price last month during its cultural heritage monitoring.

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