Brazilian state prosecutors filed a lawsuit on Tuesday requesting that miner Anglo American’s licence to expand a mining dam be suspended, following a fatal mining disaster last year.
The state of Minas Gerais passed a law last year commonly called &…
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Brazilian miner Vale has raised the emergency level at the Sul Inferior dam at its Gongo Soco mine in Barão de Cocais, in the southern state of Minas Gerais, after heavy rainfall eroded the structure’s reservoir.
"As a result of unusually heavy ra…
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A dam owned by iron ore company Vale SA that was the subject of an investigative report by a TV program last week is structurally sound and there is no reason for concern, Brazil’s national mining regulator said late on Tuesday.
On Friday, the program…
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A disaster at one of Vale’s tailings dams earlier this year that killed at least 255 people was partially triggered by "a persistently high water level" that caused the dam to lose its strength, according to a report by a panel of experts appo…
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A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday convicted mining company Vale for damages caused by the deadly rupture of a tailings dam in January that killed at least 240 people.
Judge Elton Pupo Nogueira ruled that Vale is responsible for fixing all the damages…
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Ethical investors working on a global standard for tailings dams have written to 683 listed resource companies, including major miners, asking for information to be made public within 45 days about every facility they control.
The safety of dams used …
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Brazilian mining firm Vale activated alarms in areas below three tailings dams on Wednesday night due to an elevated risk of rupture, amid a tense atmosphere in Minas Gerais state where a dam burst in January killed about 300 people.
The company activ…
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A report commissioned by Brazilian miner Vale SA last year to look into the stability of the tailings dam that ruptured January 25 certified it as sound but raised concerns over its drainage and monitoring systems, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported …
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