Brazil’s Lula slams miner Vale over 2019 Brumadinho disaster
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday criticized mining giant Vale for “not having done anything to repair the destruction” caused by the collapse of a tailings dam in Brumadinho in 2019.
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Vale, Tüv Süd and 16 people become defendants for the Brumadinho disaster
Mining News Pro - The Brazilian Federal Court has accepted the complaint filed by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) against 16 people and the companies Vale and Tüv Süd for the rupture of the Córrego do Feijão dam in Brumadinho.
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Vale fined $17m for Brumadinho tailings dam disaster
Mining News Pro - Brazilian miner Vale SA was fined after the country’s comptroller general decided the firm failed to present reliable information on the conditions of its Brumadinho tailings dam prior to a 2019 disaster, the company said on Monday.
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SEC sues Vale for false claims tied to Brumadinho dam collapse
Mining News Pro - US securities regulators sued Vale SA, one of the world’s largest iron ore miners, for allegedly making false claims about safety before the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam that killed 270 people.
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Vale settles $630m in cases related to Brumadinho disaster
Mining News Pro - Brazilian miner Vale SA said on Monday that individual settlements related to the Brumadinho dam disaster reached over 3 billion reais ($629.92 million) so far, roughly three years after the incident.
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Vale ordered to pay $26 million to families of Brumadinho victims
Mining News Pro - A Brazilian Labor Court ordered Vale to pay individual compensation of R$1million ($200,000) for moral damages to families of workers killed in the collapse of the Córrego do Feijão mine dam in Brumadinho, in 2019.
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Brazil Supreme Court rejects Brumadinho victims appea
Mining News Pro - The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) denied an order against the deal signed by Vale and the government of Minas Gerais for the reparation of the socio-economic and environmental damages caused by the Brumadinho dam collapse in 2019.
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Vale and Brazil state sign $7bn deal over Brumadinho
Mining News Pro - Vale executives and members of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, signed on Thursday a R$ 37.6 billion ($7bn) deal for the reparation of the socio-economic and environmental damage caused by the Brumadinho dam rupture.
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Vale and Brazil state reach agreement over Brumadinho
Mining News Pro - Vale has reached an agreement on a settlement for damages from the deadly Brumadinho dam disaster in January 2019, which killed 270 people.
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Brumadinho dam collapse could have been predicted weeks in advance
Mining News Pro - Not so long ago, those involved in mining and exploration could attend a conference, like [last] week’s Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) Roundup, without ever hearing about “ESG” – the guidelines for being socially and environmentally responsible.
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Two years after Brumadinho, still no convictions
Mining News Pro - Federal Police in Minas Gerais, Brazil, expect to receive the forensic report by the end of March on the cause of the tailings liquefaction that led to the dam collapse at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mining complex in Brazil, which killed 270 people two years ago.
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Brumadinho dam collapse could have been predicted weeks in advance
Mining News Pro - The dam collapse at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mining complex in Brazil, which killed almost 300 people two years ago, could have been foreseen with the right monitoring technology.
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Vale negotiating funds for state in Brumadinho disaster
Mining News Pro - Iron ore miner Vale (NYSE: VALE) and the government of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state are negotiating an agreement to settle damage claims stemming from the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster involving the injection of billions of reais into funds to be managed by the state government.
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Brazil’s lower house to evaluate Brumadinho compensation
Mining News Pro - Brazil’s lower house has created a special commission to evaluate talks between Vale and Minas Gerais state officials over compensation for the Brumadinho tailings dam collapse.
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Prosecutors want to cancel Vale’s $44m Brumadinho deal
Mining News Pro - Federal prosecutors in Minas Gerais, Brazil, want to cancel a R$250 million ($44 million) agreement between Vale (NYSE: VALE) and the Brazilian government over compensations for the disaster in Brumadinho, which killed 270 people in 2019.
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Court suspends Vale’s $1.5bn deposit in Brumadinho case
Mining News Pro - Vale said on Friday that a new court decision had suspended 7.9 billion reais ($1.5 billion) in legal deposits that had been previously required in a case related to the deadly dam collapse in Brumadinho last year.
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Vale operating license suspended in Brumadinho
Mining News Pro - The city of Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais province has suspended Vale’s operating license after health agents said that the company’s onsite activities have “not respected the rules of social isolation.”
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Vale to create compliance department after Brumadinho
Mining News Pro - After the disasters of Mariana and Brumadinho, Vale said on Wednesday that will install an audit committee to improve company’s corporate governance.
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Brazil court releases $10m in frozen funds to Vale for studies on Brumadinho
Mining News Pro - The court of the state of Minas Gerais is releasing $48 million reais ($10.4 million) to iron ore miner Vale to fund the technical consultancy that will determine the losses caused by the collapse of a tailings dam in Brumadinho in January 2019.
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Internal probe confirms Vale knew Brumadinho dam was unsafe
Mining News Pro - Brazilian iron ore miner Vale has published the results of an independent report into the Córrego do Feijão mine’s tailings dam collapse that killed 270 people last year, which reveals the company knew about the facility’s fragile condition since 2003.
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Brumadinho dam disaster shrinks Vale iron ore output 34%
Mining News Pro - Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No.1 iron ore miner, saw output of the steelmaking commodity collapse by almost 34% in the second quarter of the year, compared to the same period in 2018.
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Vale faces investors lawsuit linked to Brumadinho dam burst
Mining News Pro - A group of investors in Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s top iron ore producer, is seeking compensation for loses linked to the deadly dam burst in Brumadinho in January this year, which killed more than 300 people and caused extensive property and environmental damage in the region.
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Vale suffers massive loss following Brumadinho dam rupture
Mining News Pro - Brazilian mining giant Vale has reported a $US1.6 billion loss ($2.3 billion) in the March quarter after the Brumadinho dam disaster led to disruptions to its supply of iron ore.
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