The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure.
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Brumadinho
Municipality in Brazil
Brumadinho is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the Belo Horizonte metropolitan mesoregion and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte. Brumadinho is at an altitude of 880 m. In 2020 the population was 40,666.... Wikipedia
Feb 21, 2024 · In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, ...
Jan 16, 2024 · The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday on 25 January 2019.
This tragedy occurred three years after Mariana's tailings dam rupture – the most significant tailing dam disaster in Brazilian history. Thus far, a systematic ...
Jan 16, 2024 · The 2019 Feijão dam failure in Brumadinho, Brazil, claimed 270 lives and caused enormous environmental damage. A special feature of this ...