London Mining Network comment on mining waste disaster in Brazil
…was at Mariana, in the same state, in November 2015, at the Samarco iron ore mine owned by Vale and London-listed mining company BHP. LMN published a report on the…
Research
…letters, publications and Early Day Motions. Tailings dams In 2017, we produced a report on Brazil’s Samarco iron ore tailings dam disaster, in the state of Minas Gerais called The…
Fighting mining injustice in Latin America and South Africa
…in County Durham. Justice for Krenak indigenous People! Three years ago, in Brazil, the destruction of the Mariana mining dam, owned by Samarco (a consortium of multinationals composed of the…
"You have failed us": report on the London AGM of BHP, 17 October 2018
…operated assets in 2017. 4. He said there had been progress in the recovery of communities and ecosystems affected by the Samarco disaster. He had visited the Samarco operations in…
Three years of mud and struggle
photo: Liam Barrington-Bush For the third anniversary of the Samarco tailings dam disaster, our friends in the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil have issued a declaration: From…