Mining disaster in Brazil: 28 remain disappeared; BHP Billiton CEO flying to Minas Gerais

Monday, November 9th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

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Brazilian authorities are still struggling to determine what caused the rupture in dams at an iron ore mine and desperately working to recover the bodies of as many as 28 people believed to have been swept away in the massive mudflow and flood. Read full article

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Hepatia
Sounds like another British Petroleum Deep Water Horizon disaster. More British incompetence.
Nov 10th, 2015 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Truth
Samarcois 50% owned by Vale. A Brazilian company. How does it make it British incompetence?
Nov 10th, 2015 - 04:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
@1 Hippy
No doubt, to you and your peanut-sized brain, it does sound like “another British Petroleum Deep Water Horizon disaster”.

The only problem with your statement is that the company here, is run by Brazilians. Although I'm presuming that the dams were built according to internationally accepted norms, we must remember that the monitoring of the dams for security purposes - if carried out at all - was/is the responsibility of the government of MG....which happens to belong to the PT. So, if incompetence is the main cause for the disaster / tragedy, it is 'local'...

And you Hepatia, will still be stupid in 25 years.
Nov 10th, 2015 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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