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Brazil and the state of Espirito Santo have rejected a proposal by miners Vale and BHP regarding reparations for the deadly 2015 Mariana tailings dam

The $25.03bn offer was deemed insufficient and laden with "inadmissible conditions" by the office of Brazil's solicitor general.

Brazil's government and the state of Espirito Santo have turned down a $25.03bn settlement proposal from mining giants Vale and BHP.

Mining giants Vale and BHP, along with their joint venture Samarco, have proposed a settlement of 127 billion reais ($24.88bn) to Brazilian authorities as compensation for the 2015 Mariana tailings dam disaster, Reuters reported.

In Mato Grosso do Sul state, around 100 Indigenous individuals from the Guyraroká community of the Guarani-Kaiowá people are confined to an area of 50 hectares (123 acres) on the edge of a road, surrounded by soybean and corn plantations. Meanwhile, in Minas Gerais state, the Krenak are fighting to reclaim the area where their […]

Mining giants Vale and BHP have proposed paying a nearly $25 billion settlement over a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil that killed 19 people and flooded

More than eight years after the Mariana dam disaster, Indigenous Krenak people remain scarred by the memories of one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state. Living on the banks of the Doce River for generations, the Krenak peoples were among the most impacted by the rupture of the Fundão iron mine […]

Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Jan 26, 2024 - A Brazilian court has ordered mining giants Vale and BHP and their joint venture Samarco to pay $9.56 billion for damage caused by a 2015 tailings dam collapse, one of the countrys worst environmental disasters.

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BRUMADINHO (AFP) – Nathalia de Oliveira, an intern at Brazilian mining giant Vale in the town of Brumadinho, was talking on the phone with her husband when she noticed a rush of birds overhead and felt the ground shake beneath her. When the 25-year-old mother of two turned, she saw a tsunami of mud rushing […]