RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - (REUTERS) Brazilian mining giant Vale SA has interrupted production at its Timbopeba mine and part of its Alegria mine after prosecutors ordered the evacuation of an area around the nearby Xingu dam, the company said in a securities filing.
The closures, in the state of Minas Gerais where Vale has been involved in two dam disasters, will reduce its output by 40,000 iron ore tons a day, it said.
In 2015 a tailings dam operated by Samarco, a joint venture between Vale and BHP Group in the town of Mariana, burst, followed in 2019 by . . .
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