London, March 13, 2025 (AFP) - London trial on 2015 Brazil mine disaster wraps up

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2025-03-13

A trial on whether Australian mining giant BHP is liable for one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters concludes Thursday in London, with hundreds of thousands of victims demanding billions in compensation. The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people and unleashed a deluge of thick toxic mud into villages, fields, rainforest, rivers and the ocean. The Fundao tailings dam at an iron ore mine in the mountains of Minas Gerais state was managed by Sam......

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