The Aftermath of the 2015 Samarco Fundão Dam Failure and Mine Tailings Disaster - SE Brazil

Victims of Brazil corporate mining disaster await justice, three years on
(The Observers, France 24 News; November 19, 2018)
http://observers.france24.com/en/20181119-victims-brazil-mining-catastrophe-dam

Brazil dam disaster:  firm knew of potential impact months in advance
(Dom PHILLIPS, The Guardian; March 1, 2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/28/brazil-dam-collapse-samarco-fundao-mining


Selected Research Articles:


Metals and Arsenic in Water Supply for Riverine Communities Affected by the Largest Environmental Disaster in Brazil:  The Dam Collapse on Doce River
(OLIVEIRA DE CARVALHO et al., 2018)
http://www.orbital.ufms.br/index.php/Chemistry/article/download/1081/520

The environmental impacts of one of the largest tailing dam failures worldwide
(HATJE et al., 2017)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11143-x.pdf

Fundão tailings dam failures:  the environmental tragedy of the largest technological disaster of Brazilian mining in global context
(FONSECA DO CARMO et al., 2017)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1679007316301566/pdfft?md5=8a4dd42f3a2d67e71cb6f37280abf6db&pid=1-s2.0-S1679007316301566-main.pdf&download=true&isDTMRedir=true

The tailings dam failure of 5 November 2015 in SE Brazil and its proceeding seismic sequence
(AGURTO-DETZEL et al., 2016)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016GL069257



N. B.:  More information regarding the 2015 BHP-Vale Samarco Dam Collapse may be found within "Blog Archives"  of my former blog posts under the following titles and dates:


Just In:  BHP-Vale Samarco to pay $5 Billion+ for Brazilian Mine Failure         
3/2/2016

Mine Tailing Sludge from Brazilian BHP-Vale Samarco Dam Failure reaches the Atlantic Ocean
11/25/2015





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