Month After Brumadinho Dam Tragedy, 131 Still Missing
Exactly one month after Brazil’s most deadly mining disasters, firefighters and volunteers still search for at least 131 people still...
February 25, 2019Topic
Vale
Opinion: Brazil’s Brumadinho is Vale’s Worst Nightmare
Brumadinho is a municipality south of Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais, where some 12 million cubic meters of...
February 25, 2019
International Entities Want to Exclude Vale From UN Global Pact Group
International human rights and environmental organizations urged the United Nations this week to exclude Vale from the Global Pact initiative,...
February 14, 2019
Brazil’s Fiocruz Warns of Possible Health Problems for Dam Victims
Researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) warned on Tuesday of the possibility of aggravation of chronic diseases in the...
February 6, 2019
Vale to Shut Down Dams and Reduce Production in Brazil
Brazil’s mining giant announced on Tuesday that the company will eliminate ten dams similar to the one which caused the...
January 30, 2019
Five People Linked to Vale’s Dam Collapse Arrested in Brazil
Three Vale employees responsible for the licensing of the dam that broke in Brumadinho and two engineers from a partner...
January 29, 2019
Brazil’s Oil Giant Vale Loses R$71B in Market Value After Dam Break
Brazil’s iron giant, Vale, registered on Monday the largest plunge in share value in a single day in its history,...
January 29, 2019 Mining Giant Vale Fined Over R$11B for Dam Burst in Brazil
In the wake of the Brumadinho dam disaster and while firefighters are still looking for more than 300 people missing...
January 28, 2019
Vale Sounds New Alarm to Evacuate More of Devastated Brazilian Town
In the early hours of Sunday, warning sirens were once again issued by mining giant Vale around the town of...
January 27, 2019