Surface mining: 26 of 30

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Vale suspends operations at Fábrica and Vargem Grande

Brazil's National Mining Agency has ordered the immediate suspension of activities at the complexes

22 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Brazil goes ahead with upstream tailings dam ban

Brazil has banned upstream tailings dams like the Feijão structure that collapsed last month

19 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Vale evacuates people near Mar Azul mine

Preventative measure due to uncertainty over upstream tailings dam

18 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Brazil mining authority plans to ban upstream tailings dams

ANM is set to issue an administrative order to either remove upstream tailings dams or convert them

11 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Communities evacuated in Minas Gerais as a precaution

Vale and ArcelorMittal are both evacuating communities near upstream tailings dams in Minas Gerais

08 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Brazil authority cancels Vale licences

Vale's operations have been further curtailed in the wake of the deadly Córrego de Feijão disaster

07 February 2019

GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

"The dam collapsed so fast that the sludge engulfed the alarms"

Vale's Fabio Schvartsman gave a press conference after a meeting with Brazil's prosecutor general

01 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

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