Mariana Dam

On 5 November 2015 the Fundão Dam near the city of Mariana in Southeast Brazil collapsed, unleashing 60 million cubic meters of iron ore waste and mud.

A dam burst releasing millions of tonnes of toxic mud has caused a trail of 500 km of destruction, from the mountains of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic Ocean.

It is a very recent legal precedent where large multinational companies are being held responsible for the crimes of their subsidiary companies. We are using ...

Nineteen people were killed when the Mariana dam in south-eastern Brazil collapsed and unleashed a wave of toxic sludge, leaving thousands ...

The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano ...

The Amsterdam District Court scheduled a case management hearing for 14 July 2025 to address the claim brought by victims of the Fundão Dam collapse in Mariana ...

A lawsuit against mining company BHP starts in London on Monday over the 2015 dam collapse.

by CC Pereira · 2024 · Cited by 2 — Eight years have passed since Brazil's worst environmental disaster, the collapse of the Samarco company's Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The failure of the Fundão dam, which belongs to Samarco, caused one of the biggest environmental disasters in the history of Brazil.