Mining major BHP has approved $44-million in funding to restart one of the Samarco concentrators, in Brazil.
The announcement comes just days after the Samarco joint venture (JV), with iron-ore major Vale, was granted all the necessary environmental licenses to restart operations in the state of Minas Gerais, following the 2015 collapse of a tailings dam which claimed the lives of 19 people and displaced numerous others.