Mining giants told to pay $9.7bn over Brazil dam disaster
Samarco is a 50-50 joint venture between Australian mining group BHP and Brazil's Vale. The disaster in Minas Gerais state, which also displaced 700 people, is considered to be one of the country ...
How a Mining Disaster is Helping to Overhaul …
Mining disasters are not new to Brazil. There have been five dam failures in the last decade, resulting in lost lives and damage to property and the surrounding environment.[8] In 2013, a year after a …
Brazilian Mine Disaster Leaves 58 Dead, 200 Missing
The disaster brings Brazil's mining industry under scrutiny. After the 2015 dam breach, despite lip service, little was done to change the regulatory structure at …
Samarco mine disaster settlement talks irk Brazil officials as …
The latest talks over a multibillion-dollar settlement for a 2015 mining disaster failed to yield a deal, with Brazilian officials signaling the two sides are still far apart with time running out.
Who should we blame for the Brazil mining dam disaster?
Mining. BHP Billiton. Disaster management. Dams. Brazil. BHP. Register now. Six people are dead and more than 20 missing following the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil. But in the rush to blame we ...
After two collapses, a third Vale dam at 'imminent risk of …
This was the site in 2019 of Brazil's deadliest mining disaster, when a tailings dam at Vale's Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine collapsed, killing nearly 300 people. The cause of the dam's ...
The Unfolding Disaster in Brazil: a Warning of What's to Come
Brazilian regulators fined the company $51.6M USD for the spill and suspended operations at the mine. This disaster did not come as a surprise to community organizations and local officials who had raised concerns about the stability of the waste disposal stack in 2021. Their warnings were ignored by the company and Brazilian …
Brazil's dam disaster
Vale is Brazil's biggest mining company and the world's number-one producer of iron ore. ... It was the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history. The mine's owner Samarco was a joint ...
Vale: 'Several years' to recover from Brazil mine disaster
Mufulira Mine tailings disaster in Zambia in 89 killed,Harmony Gold, Merriesspruit,South Africa in 1994, 17 killed,Aberfan disaster in Wales,in 1966, 100 school children are buried alive.The list ...
Mining Disasters in Brazil | Case Studies in the Environment
The ruptures of two iron ore dams in two municipalities of southeastern Brazil have caused immeasurable economic, social, and environmental damages. This case report describes the ruptures of Mariana dam in 2015 and the Brumadinho dam in 2019, as well as their causes and consequences. The companies responsible for …
Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil's worst …
On November 5, 2015 an iron ore mine tailings dam owned by Samarco, a joint venture of Vale and BHP Billiton, two of the world's largest mining firms, collapsed in Mariana, …
The Rio Doce Mining Disaster in Brazil: between policies of …
Abstract. Read online. This article analyses the policies of affectations in the context of the disaster which occurred in late 2015, when an iron ore tailings dam ruptured, affecting thousands of families in the Rio Doce River Valley, in the southeast of Brazil.
Brazil's Mining Disaster Worst in History | The Inertia
Samarco is owned by the Brazilian mining company Vale and an Australian company called BHP Billiton. They've agreed to pay $260 million as compensation, but putting a dollar figure on a disaster ...
Seeking answers to catastrophic Brazil mine disaster
The Mariana mining disaster is widely regarded as Brazil's worst ever environmental disaster. From Bento Rodrigues, the mud travelled 600km across two Brazilian states leaving hundreds of people ...
The microbial profile of rivers and lagoons three years after …
The collapse of the Fundão tailings dam (Minas Gerais, Brazil) was the largest environmental disaster in Brazil's history and in the world mining industry. This disaster carried approximately 55 million m 3 of iron ore tailings along the rivers and the lagoons of the Doce river basin. Although multiple studies assessed the impact on …
Mining Disasters in Brazil | Case Studies in the …
The ruptures of two iron ore dams in two municipalities of southeastern Brazil have caused immeasurable economic, social, and environmental damages. This …
Petrochemical giant's closed salt mine partially collapses in
Updated 2:32 PM PDT, December 10, 2023. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A closed rock salt mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem partially …
Sinking of Maceió
The sinking of Maceió ground is a geological process of soil subsidence in several neighborhoods of the Brazilian city of Maceió, capital of the state of Alagoas, of an anthropogenic nature, caused by the inadequate exploitation and consequent collapse of the rock salt mines of the Brazilian mining company Braskem.. The city undergoes a …
Deadly Mining Disaster Still Tests Vale Three Years Later
Jan. 29, 2022 9:00 am ET. Share. Text. NOVA LIMA, Brazil—Three years after Vale SA's Brumadinho disaster, the fallout from the dam collapse that killed 270 people still looms large over the ...
Victims of Brazil's worst environmental disaster to get day …
Victims of Brazil's worst environmental disaster to get day in UK courts. Court of appeal judgment allows £5bn lawsuit against mining giant BHP by more than 200,000 victims of 2015 Mariana dam ...
How a Mining Disaster Devastated an Indigenous Group in Brazil
March 3, 2017, 9:29am. Snap. In 2015, Brazil experienced the worst environmental disaster in its history when a dam holding mining industry waste burst and sent a toxic mudslide along the Rio Doce ...
Brazil mining giant Vale will pay nearly $7 billion …
Vale has agreed to pay 37.7 billion reais, or roughly $7 billion, to the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where a mining disaster in Brumadinho two years ago killed 270 people and caused massive ...
Mine-Disaster Settlement Talks Irk Brazil Officials as …
The latest talks over a multibillion-dollar settlement for a 2015 mining disaster failed to yield a deal, with Brazilian officials signaling the two sides are still far apart with time running out.
Samarco dam disaster: dealing with the fallout of a tragedy
The incident on 5 November 2015 has been described as the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history, with 19 lives lost as the wave of tailings destroyed the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues on its destructive path towards the southern Atlantic Ocean. For Samarco, the operator of the Germano iron ore mine and its defective tailings ...
EXCLUSIVE Final settlement for Brazil's Samarco dam disaster …
Item 1 of 2 An Australian (2nd L) and a Brazilian (2nd R) flags are pictured on the entrance of the mine operator Samarco owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd in Mariana, Brazil, November 11, 2015.
Victims of Brazil dam disaster accuse mining giant BHP of
Victims of Brazil's worst environmental disaster have written to the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, accusing the mining company BHP of "environmental racism" and urging the UK ...
Mining disaster in Brazil: Are the rewards really worth the risks?
The mining nightmare scenario just took place in Brazil, and unless the industry fundamentally reforms the way it operates, it won't be the last time. Last week in southern Brazil the collapse of a dam containing millions of cubic meters of liquid mine waste sent a flood of toxic mud into the valley and six villages below. As of this writing ...
Brazil Mine Disaster Floods Area With Toxic Substances
Many are blaming the disaster on Samarco, which is the Brazilian mining company in charge of the dams. The company is a joint venture between the mining …
'Throw them overboard': Brazil mine disaster …
Gomes de Souza is one of the atingidos — the people affected by the failure of the Fundão mine tailings dam in November 2015 near the city of Mariana in Minas Gerais. The disaster killed 19 ...
BHP faces shareholder class action over Brazil mine disaster
Brazilian federal prosecutors had claimed both BHP and its partner in the venture, Brazil's Vale (NYSE:VALE), failed to take actions that could have prevented the disaster. But the companies ...