Faced with public outrage after its second mining dam collapse in four years kil...
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA/SAO PAULO - Faced with public outrage after its second mining dam collapse in four years killed at least 240 people in Brazil, Vale SA misrepresented what it had done to shut down its riskiest dams, a review of the company’s statements shows.
Reuters asked Vale for details on these moves on February 5, seven days after Schvartsman’s news conference. Vale also listed the 10 dams that it said it planned to close, including the collapsed one at Brumadinho. Vale said its statements surrounding the dams had been made in good faith, and added that it had done a lot to prevent a recurrence of the Mariana disaster and that much “is still being done.”
Mining watchdog ANM is carrying out a separate investigation into the causes of the dam burst as well as whether any mining or other administrative rules were broken. Vale, the world’s largest iron ore exporter, is not the only big miner that operates upstream dams. At BHP, for example, 43% of its 67 operated dams are upstream, although only five of those are active, according to a slide presentation on its website from June, with the sole active ones among those based in Chile and Australia. BHP verified that the numbers were accurate.
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