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Brazil’s deadly dam collapse pushes miners to set global rules for tailings

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The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), a London-based industry group representing 27 companies, is setting an independent panel of experts to develope a global standard for tailings facilities to be enforced to its members.

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Brazil mining authority halts two Vale complexes

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Decision was made in light of a possible failure of five dams at both complexes, which are located in Minas Gerais, the same state where the Feijão mine dam collapsed last month, killing over 300 people.

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BHP urges miners to create global body to oversee tailings dams

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CEO Andrew Mackenzie said it was too early to say what impact the recent Vale tailings dam disaster will have on efforts to restart BHP and Vale’s jointly owned Samarco mine, shut since November 2015 after a dam collapse killed 19 people.

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Kinross stock rallies after reporting record production at Paracatu and Bald Mountain

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Operating cash flow reached $790 million in 2018, and cash and equivalents of $349 million, $1.9 billion in liquidity, and no debt maturities until 2021.

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Eight Vale employees arrested in Brazil as part of dam collapse probe

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Four people from the German consulting group Tüv Süd, company that certified the safety of Vale’s dams, were also detained.

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Half of the world’s biggest miners do not keep track of their tailings risk management measures -report

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The Responsible Mining Foundation says many of the world’s largest mining companies are not able to ‘know and show’ how effectively they are addressing the risks of tailings dam failure and seepage.

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