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The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure. [1] The dam, located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Brumadinho in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is owned by the mining company Vale, which was also involved in the Mariana dam disaster of 2015. [2]
Brumadinho dam disaster in 2019. The structural failure of tailings dams and the ensuing release of toxic metals in the environment is a great concern. The standard of public reporting on tailings dam incidents is poor.
The municipality of Brumadinho itself was officially established on December 17, 1938. On January 25, 2019, the city was the victim of a tailings dam collapse that killed 270 people. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The disaster released a mudflow that advanced over houses in a rural area near the city.
The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in flooding that devastated the downstream villages of Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo (40 km (25 mi ...
The Inhotim Institute is a Brazilian contemporary art museum. It is one of the largest outdoor art centers in Latin America. [1] [2] It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz [3] in 2004 to house his personal art collection, but opened to the public a couple of years later.
A mine-shaft elevator fell at the Bazhanov coal mine. [119] Makiivka, Ukraine: 10 27 March 1964 A steel cable hit a mine-shaft elevator at the Sachsen coal mine, killing 10 workers, including 5 Turkish nationals. [120] Heeßen, West Germany: 10 6 September 2014 An elevator plunged 32 stories at a construction site. [121] Istanbul, Turkey
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A serious example of a break with human rights was the dam failure in Brumadinho on January 25, 2019, which was the biggest work accident in Brazil in terms of loss of human life and the second biggest industrial disaster of the century. It was one of the biggest environmental disasters for mining in the country, after the dam collapsed in Mariana.