On Tuesday, the mining giant published the findings of an external review it commissioned last year after months of scrutiny about how workers were being treated.
Meanwhile, racism was found to be "common across a number of areas," with a survey "indicating [that] people working in a country different to their birth experienced high rates of racism, and that 39.8% of men and 31.8% of women who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in Australia experienced racism."
"The findings of this report are deeply disturbing to me and should be to everyone who reads them. I offer my heartfelt apology to every team member, past or present, who has suffered as a result of these behaviours. This is not the kind of company we want to be." Men make up 79% of Rio Tinto's workforce, though the company has taken steps to recruit more female workers lately.