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The CEO of one of the world's
mining companies, Rio Tinto, has resigned following the
of two sacred Aboriginal sites. However, it will not be a
exit. The CEO has until March to empty his
and head for the
. He handed in his notice after the
created by the demolition of 46,000-year-old caves in the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. The company was mining for high-grade iron
. The CEO acknowledged there was no doubt the company could have made "better
". The ancient caves are sacred to Australia's indigenous Aboriginal communities. There is
to show they were used as dwellings as far back as the Old Stone Age, when humans were developing stone
.