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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]
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.
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.
On 25 January 2019, the Brumadinho dam disaster occurred at the Córrego do Feijão mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, releasing 3 billion gallons of mine waste, [83] in a wave of red iron ore which destroyed the mine's cafeteria, where many workers were present and died, and which flooded the town of Brumadinho. [84] 270 were killed ...
have changed. For example, Rio Tinto, Vale and Xstrata, Brasil’s and London’s largest mining companies, not only ended negotiations on their buyout deal, but have strategically refused to engage in traditional long term supply contracts due to lucrative spot market opportunities. This
This is a list of mining areas in Colombia. [1] The mineral industry of Colombia is large and diverse; the country occupies the first place in mining areas per surface area in the world. In pre-Columbian times, mining of gold, silver, copper, emeralds, salt, coal and other minerals was already widespread.
Image source: Getty Images. Social Security's earnings test limits also rose in 2025. This year, seniors who work and collect benefits will be able to earn more money without risking having a ...
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 ...