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  • Mining Giant Behind Deadly Dam Collapse Took Lax Approach to Corporate Responsibility

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 19, 2019  //  By Raimund Bleischwitz, Priscila Carvalho & Lilia Couto

    Rescue crew work in a tailings dam owned by Brazilian miner Vale SA that burst, in Brumadinho, Brazil January 25, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves     TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1B661368C0

    On January 25, 2019, an iron ore mining dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil. The accident was probably the worst mining dam incident in the last three decades, according to the UN. So far, 203 people have been found dead and 105 are still missing, buried underneath the wave of almost 13 million cubic meters of mining waste. At least 305 kilometers of the Paraopeba river are now covered in toxic mud. Vale SA, the company that built the dam, is the world’s largest iron ore producer.

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