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Rio numbers add up

ONE miner and three mines, plus three land use agreements and 12 Traditional Owner groups equals 574 Indigenous jobs, including 244 local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander positions, for Rio Tinto workers across Rio’s Cape York bauxite sites in far north Queensland.

Karma Barndon
Rio's Amrun project on Cape York Peninsula.

Rio's Amrun project on Cape York Peninsula.

The workforce has been strengthened by the recent start of construction at the $2.6 billion Amrun project. Local Aboriginal participation in the project was boosted by recruitment roadshows held in mid-2017...

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