Jakob Stausholm to leave the big mining company Rio Tinto after just four years in the job and a contentious investment in lithium production

When Jakob Stausholm took the top job at Rio Tinto Group, his task was to repair the reputation of a company that had just blasted through a 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal site and bungled its response.

During his nearly five-year stint at the helm of the world’s second-biggest miner, Rio Tinto has sought to repair its reputation with investors and communities.