Blasts Cause Mining Companies To Help Update Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act Plans to destroy dozens of sacred sites in Western Australia as part of a major mine operation are on hold. Following backlash over the Rio Tinto’s blasting of two 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal caves in the Pilbara in late May. WA’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt said on Twitter last week the blast was a โterrible outcome,” resultant from legislation that […] Brains Rouchelle Gilmore | June 12, 2020 2 Comments