Tag: Andrew Mackenzie BHP CEO

• Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:24 UTC

  Brazil biggest environmental disaster: compensation agreement could be signed this week

  

  The Brazilian government expects to reach an agreement by Friday with Samarco Mineração to settle a 20 billion-real (US$4.9 billion) lawsuit for damages in the deadly dam disaster which burst in inland Minas Gerais creating a tsunami of mud and waste that killed 17 people and reached the Atlantic ocean.

• Friday, November 20th 2015 - 10:16 UTC

  BHP Billiton and Vale face civil lawsuit of US$ 3.69bn over dam collapse in Brazil

  

  A BHP Billiton and Vale joint venture in Brazil is facing its first civil lawsuit over the dam collapse at its iron ore mine on November 5 that buried a town and contaminated the region's main river.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2015 - 08:05 UTC

  Brazil's mining disaster forces cities 300km downstream to cut drinking water supply

  

  Mud and wastewater from burst dams at a Brazilian iron ore mine cut off drinking water and raised health and environmental concerns in cities more than 300 km downstream on Monday, amid increasingly dire search efforts in a village devastated by the mudslides.

• Monday, November 9th 2015 - 08:02 UTC

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

  

  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.