Date Published
December 12, 2019
Summary
At approximately 12:28 p.m. local time on January 25, 2019, tailings dam B-I at Vale S.A.’s Córrego do Feijão Iron Ore Mine (“Dam I”), located 9 kilometers (km) north-east of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a sudden failure, resulting in a catastrophic mudflow that traveled rapidly downstream.
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Reference Information
Robertson, P.K., L.d. Melo, D.J. Williams, and G.W. Wilson. 2019. Report of the Expert Panel on the Technical Causes of the Failure of Feijão Dam I.
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