Database offers new details on the dams that hold mining waste

Mongabay
Feb 11, 2020, 1:29 am255 pts
On Jan. 25, 2019, the Brumadinho dam collapsed, releasing a slurry of water containing the waste products, or tailings, from the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil. The deluge that surged downstream killed 270 people, and for Vale, the company that ran the mine, it was the second such…

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