Brazil Iron Ore Disaster

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Mining giants told to pay $9.7bn over Brazil dam disaster

A federal judge in Brazil has ordered mining giants BHP, Vale and their Samarco iron ore joint venture to pay 47.6bn reais ($9.67bn) in damages over a deadly dam burst in 2015.

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Brazil: Worst environmental disaster in history | Maryknoll …

Southeastern Brazil has been devastated by toxic mud due to a dam that burst at an iron-ore mine in November. Brazil is calling it the worst environmental disaster in its history. The following article was published in the January-February 2016 issue of NewsNotes. A disaster of truly epic proportions began on November 5, near Mariana in ...

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Vale dam disaster: $7bn compensation for disaster victims

Communities hit by a dam disaster in Brazil two years ago which killed 270 people will get a $7bn (£5bn) payout. The Brumadinho dam contained waste from an iron ore mine but gave way, unleashing ...

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Brazil's Brumadinho mining disaster will hurt Vale, but iron ore …

Brazil's latest dam disaster is a human and environmental tragedy, but the fallout is seeing iron ore prices surge across the world and raking in millions of extra royalties for government coffers.

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Brazil Samarco | BHP

Samarco at a glance. Samarco is independently managed and has its own integrated logistics. This includes mines, concentrators, and pelletizing plants for the processing of iron ore, with pipelines that connect the two operating units and a port terminal for the export of production. 60% Production capacity after second concentrator restart ...

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A year after Brazil mining dam collapse, CEO faces homicide …

Exactly one year ago Saturday, a Brazilian dam operated by iron ore miner Vale gave way to a tsunami of 9.7 million cubic meters of mining sludge that buried part of a town and killed 270 people.

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Dam collapse at Brazilian mine exposes grave safety problems

Brazilian rescue workers continue searching for more than 300 people missing after a dam burst at an iron ore mine over the weekend.. The dam, which ruptured on Jan. 25 close to the Brazilian town ...

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Brazilian Mine Disaster Leaves 58 Dead, 200 Missing

DOUGLAS MAGNO/AFP/Getty Images. On Friday, a dam associated with an iron ore mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais breached, unleashing a torrent of water and mine waste into the Paraopeba ...

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After two collapses, a third Vale dam at 'imminent …

The retired Xingu dam at Vale's Alegria iron ore mine in Mariana — the same municipality where a Vale tailings dam collapsed in November 2015 in what's considered Brazil's worst environmental …

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Metal concentrations and biological effects from one of …

Two environmental disasters of large proportions involving mining dams occurred in Brazil in less than four years. Iron ore tailings released by the ruptures of both the Fundão and Brumadinho ...

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Brazil's mining tragedy: was it a preventable disaster?

Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, herself heavily criticised for waiting a week to visit the disaster area, has announced an initial 250m reals (£43.5m) in fines for Samarco, one of Brazil ...

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The Unfolding Disaster in Brazil: a Warning of What's to Come

On Saturday January 8, a waste pile collapsed at French steel pipe producer Vallourec's Pau Branco iron ore mine. Mine waste flowed into a water retention dam on site, which caused the dam to overflow. Here are stunning videos of the event and the aftermath. The waste pile was a co-disposal stack of waste rock and tailings, and was …

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Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing

Dom Phillips in Pacaraima. Ten bodies have been found and more than 400 people are unaccounted for after a dam operated by the mining firm Vale collapsed in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais ...

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BHP and Vale ordered to pay $9.7bn over Brazilian dam …

A Brazilian court has ordered iron ore producer Samarco, along with its owners Vale and BHP, to pay R$47.6bn ($9.7bn) in compensation for a dam collapse …

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BHP aims to settle over Brazil dam disaster

The Australian company is on the hook financially for the collapse of a tailings dam that stored mining waste at the Samarco iron ore complex in November 2015, near the town of Mariana in the ...

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A Note on the Influence of the Mine Tailings Released in

On January 25, 2019, a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine (Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, southern Brazil) ruptured and released ~12 million m 3 of mine tailings into the Paraopeba ...

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Brazil Brumadinho dam disaster: iron ore prices still …

The most unfortunate fortune Australia will ever make. When a mudslide killed 270 Brazilians in 2019, the impact on iron ore markets was supposed to be temporary. Five years on, the tragedy still ...

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Vale to cut iron ore production by 10% after Brazil disaster

Iron ore miner Vale has announced plans to halt 40m tonnes of production — about 10 per cent of its annual output of the steelmaking ingredient — so that it can …

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Cytogenotoxicity of the water and sediment of the …

In order to assess the impacts of the iron ore tailings on the Paraopeba River basin, water and sediment samples were taken on January 30, 2019, five days after the dam rupture, from six sampling sites: (S1) Moeda – 61.3 km upstream the rupture area, (S2) Brumadinho – 5.2 km, (S3) Juatuba – 48 km, (S4) São José da Varginha – 111 km, …

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#IronMadeIn Brazil: Report reveals iron industry's human …

Ian Cheibub. Açailândia, Paris, 24 February 2022 — The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Justiça nos Trilhos released a report today on the human rights and environmental abuses associated with the iron and steel value chain originating in mines of Brazil's Carajás corridor. It sheds light on how industry giants …

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Why Did the Dam in Brazil Collapse? Here's a Brief Look.

It is the world's largest iron ore miner, founded in 1942. Just this week it evacuated hundreds of people from the area of another dam because of safety concerns. Three years ago, another dam ...

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Brazilian iron ore mine disaster | S&P Global

Brazilian iron ore mine disaster. John Anton. William May. On 25 January 2019, tailings Dam I at Vale's Córrego do Feijão mine, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, ruptured, …

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BHP faces shareholder class action over Brazil mine disaster

Samarco, which was once the world's second-largest iron-ore pellet operation, has been shuttered since the deadly dam spill that washed downstream into neighbouring state Espírito Santo and ...

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Iron Ore Supply Disruptions In Brazil Benefit Rio Tinto …

However, a dam disaster in Brazil has recently disrupted iron ore production at VALE. The Brumadinho dam in Brazil, which is owned by VALE, collapsed on January 25 2019.

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Vale will pay nearly $7 billion over Brazilian dam …

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 ...

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Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster …

by Sarah Sax on 21 February 2024. In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, and caused widespread ...

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Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster …

In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, and caused widespread …

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Why is iron ore mined? | Brazil's Rio Doce Disaster

There, iron ore from Minnesota and Michigan was transported over lakes and rivers to mills in Pittsburg and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where nearby coal deposits were used to heat the furnaces that turned iron into steel. Iron mining began in earnest in Brazil the 1950s. The government had long been aware of the country's huge iron reserves.

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Brazil dam disaster: firm knew of potential impact months …

When the Fundão tailings dam failed on 5 November 2015, it unleashed about 40m litres of water and sediment from iron ore extraction in a wave that polluted the water supply for hundreds of ...

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Brazilian Mine Disaster Leaves 58 Dead, 200 Missing

On Friday, a dam associated with an iron ore mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais breached, unleashing a torrent of water and mine waste into the …

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