The Moment the Vale SA Dam Burst

The Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in Brazil has killed more than 100 people as of Thursday, with hundreds more missing and ...
The Mining Journal

Vale report faults poor drainage for Brumadinho failure

An internal report by Brazil-based diversified miner Vale has pointed to heavy seasonal rain, poor drainage and a brittle wall structure as key factors in the catastrophic Brumadinho tailings dam ...
EurekAlert!

Brumadinho dam collapse: The danger emerged after the decommissioning

The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday: on 25 January 2019, at a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam – a storage area for the sludgy, ...
Reuters

Exclusive: Brazil miner Vale knew deadly dam had heightened risk of collapse

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in January and killed at least 165 people had a heightened risk of ...