Rio Tinto chairman to step down over caves blast scandal

Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) chairman Simon Thompson became the latest high-profile executive to announce his departure amid backlash for the company’s destruction of two 46,000-year-old rock sacred shelters in Western Australia last year. Thompson, a former...

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