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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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Three years ago, in November 2015, the Fundão dam collapsed in Minas Gerais, unleashing 60 million cubic meters of iron ore waste and mud—the equivalent of 21,000 Olympic-sized swimming …
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the disaster (AS); and 12 are samples from the iron ore tailing (IOT) deposited on the river sediments. The granulometry of the sediments was deter-mined by dry sieving, and the particle size fractions of the iron ore tailing were quantified in a laser gran-ulometer according to methods commonly used (e.g.,
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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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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 decommission dams similar to ...
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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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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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Vale's decision to halt 40m tonnes of production will have far-reaching implications
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On 25 th January 2019, a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine, in the Brumadinho city, Brazil, failed suddenly, killing 270 people and seriously affecting the regional ecosystem 1 ...
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The disaster occurred on November 5 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine near Mariana, Minas Gerais, suffered a failure, resulting in flooding that devastated ...
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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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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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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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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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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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The claim against Brazilian mining giant Vale and its Dutch subsidiary seeks £3 billion on behalf of seven Brazilian municipalities, nearly 1,000 businesses and over …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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'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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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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