Vale has confirmed that three additional tailings dam have not met standards in respect of tailings dam safety and have raised the alert levels causing the evacuation of communities. According to...
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Vale has announced that another tailings dam is in critical condition. The South Superior Dam at the Gongo Soco mine has an imminent risk of rupture. Vale said in a media release this weekend that on...
Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman and three other senior executives have stepped down amidst the fallout from the Brumadinho tailings disaster. The executives submitted their temporary resignations on...
A global foundation created to monitor and measure practices of mining companies has issued a statement in response to Vale’s Córrego do Feijão (Brumadinho) tailings dam disaster highlighting...
A Netherland based researcher has analysed preliminary image data from the Vale tailings dam collapse and identified a range of failure points at the moment of the dam collapse. Dr Faraz Tehrani, a...
As thousands of angry Brazilians march the streets of Brazil in response to Vale dam collapse and the management of the Brumadinho tailings dam risks, a video emerged today showing the moments of...
In a surprise statement, the Vale Chief Executive Officer has spoken out on the Corrego do Feijao mine tailings dam disaster. He told a press conference that there were 300 contractors and employees...
Inhabitants of the Solomon Islands living near St Barbara’s Gold Ridge mine, about 40km from the nation’s capital Honiara, have been warned by the mining company’s CEO that a...