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Rio Tinto tragedy still under investigation

THE Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety is still looking into last Wednesday’s fatal haul truck incident at Rio Tinto’s Greater Paraburdoo-Channar mine in the Pilbara that killed 28-year-old truck driver Daniel Patterson.

Rio Tinto tragedy still under investigation

According to a Rio Tinto spokesman, the company cannot say whether production has resumed at the mine or not. DMIRS director of mines safety Andrew Chaplyn said the official investigation into the death...

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