Tag: Brazil's mining disaste

• Monday, April 1st 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Another Vale mining dam collapsed: no deaths reported and “no contamination”

  

  Brazil has suffered another mining dam collapse, though this time there are no reports of dead or missing. The Rondonia state environment secretary says the dam in Oriente Novo gave way after a waterspout damaged its structure on Friday.

• Wednesday, November 11th 2015 - 07:07 UTC

  Brazil's mining disaster impacts BHP Billiton shares on fears of cleanup costs

  

  Investors continued to dump shares in mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. following the deadly dam burst last week at its jointly owned iron-ore mine in Brazil, even as the company sought to clarify responsibility for the disaster that has already claimed the lives of three people.

• 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.