Brasília, Oct 25, 2024 (AFP) - BHP, Vale agree to pay $30bn damages for Brazil dam disaster

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2024-10-25

Mining giants BHP and Vale on Friday signed a deal with Brazil's government to pay nearly $30 billion in damages for a 2015 dam collapse that triggered the country's worst environmental disaster. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended the signing of the deal over the November 5, 2015 collapse of a tailings dam at a mine in the southeastern town of Mariana, which triggered a giant mudslide. The river of mud swamped villages, rivers and rainf......

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