The Guardian Back to home A dam that burst at an iron ore mine in south eastern Brazil on Thursday is thought to have The dam was holding so called tailings a mining waste product of
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Get PriceIn 2024 the southeastern Germano iron ore mine which is close to the city of Mariana experienced a breach at the Fundão dam and released 39 2 million cubic metres of waste In November 2024 UN Environment and Norwegian foundation GRID Arendal jointly published a report on safety at mine tailings dams It is clear that in most
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Get PriceThe scale of the 5 November tailings dam burst at the BHP Billiton/Vale owned Samarco iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state Brazil continues to grow as the waste from the dam flows downstream
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Get Price· By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO Reuters A Brazilian state law to ban upstream tailings dams the design used at a dam that collapsed at the Samarco iron ore mine in November could be
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Get PriceFour months after a deadly tailings dam breach killed 18 people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage mining company Samarco is taking steps to reopen its iron ore mine in Brazil s Minas Gerais state
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