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BHP and Vale to pay Brazil $48B for Samarco Fundão dam failure

Reparations for Brazilian disaster but court cases still loom

Karma Barndon
Pollution plume from Fundao dam failure in 2025.

Pollution plume from Fundao dam failure in 2025. | Credits: ResearchGate

BHP and Vale have agreed to pay a total of US$31.7 (A$48) billion to public authorities in Brazil to atone for the Samarco Fundão dam failure in 2015 that killed 19 people, left hundreds homeless and polluted...

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