Brumadinho dam collapse: The danger emerged after the decommissioning
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 17, 2024
The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday: on 25 January 2019, at a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam - a storage area for the sludgy, fine-grained residues from ore processing, or "tailings" - collapsed. A huge mudslide of around 10 million cubic metres of liquefied tailings flooded the site of the mine, destroying neighbouring sett