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BHP offers $25.7bn settlement for Brazil dam disaster

By Frank Prenesti

Date: Monday 29 Apr 2024

(Sharecast News) - Mining giant BHP and its Brazilian joint venture partner have submitted a $25.7bn (£20.5bn) settlement for the collapse of a tailings dam in 2015 that killed 19 people and devastated the local community.
Samarco, the joint company set up by Australian BHP and Brazilian operator Vale, has so...

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