Samarco Mineração

MANAGEMENT

Samarco to restart in the coming weeks: BHP

It has been five years since Fundao tailings dam disaster in Brazil.

15 December 2020

MANAGEMENT

Samarco to restart operations next year

Vale/BHP JV licensed for reduced restart

28 October 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Mining majors talk tailings

Anglo American, Glencore and BHP go into detail about their tailings dams

07 June 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

BHP sued in the UK over Samarco dam disaster

BHP has been served with a US$5 billion class action lawsuit over the 2015 Samarco dam collapse

08 May 2019

PROCESSING

Tailings dams: we need to start 'failing forwards'

What could and should be done to achieve better design, management and closure practices for TSFs

20 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Vale to decommission upstream tailings dams

Vale has announced that it will decommission all its tailings dams built using the upstream method

31 January 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Steps taken towards Samarco settlement

Vale and BHP sign agreement with Brazilian authorities regarding the Samarco tailings dam failure

28 June 2018

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

BHP, Vale get extension in dam failure talks

JV partners now have until June 25 to negotiate with prosecutors on Samarco dam failure settlements

26 April 2018

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