The Rio Tinto boss Jean-Sebastien Jacques is leaving the global mining company after investors pressed for strong action over the company's decision to blow up 46 000-year-old rock shelters in western Australia.
Now, an inquiry last year found that Rio Tinto went ahead with this explosion, despite knowing of the very important archaeological significance that these sites have the indigenous population of Australia.
Rio Tinto's chairman decided to step down within a year because of the mining company's demolition of a sacred Aboriginal cave in Australia in May 2020.
The mining company Rio Tinto used the radioactive capsule to measure the density of iron ore in the Gudai-Darri mine in the Australian state's remote Kimberley area.