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Minas Gerais

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Travel
    Ticks, snakes and sky-high prices: is roughing it the new luxury?

    In the mountains of Minas Gerais, a new company promises transformative experiences for those prepared to brave snakes, sore feet — and sky-high prices

    People on horseback ride through the floor of a lush green valley
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special Report
    Investing in Minas Gerais

    Minas, Brazil’s bellwether state. Governor Romeu Zema: presidential ambitions? The worries, and good life, of state capital, Belo Horizonte. Brumadinho 2019 dam disaster reverberates still. Lithium promise; niobium potential; fertiliser predicament

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    Brazil’s Brumadinho dam disaster reverberates for mining industry

    Minas Gerais tragedy in 2019 has driven new global standard for safety and transparency, meanwhile the scars remain

    A firefighter stands at a viewpoint looking at the site where the Vale dam was located in Brumadinho
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    Brazil’s lithium makes its presence known with silvery-white promise

    Minas Gerais deposits of the mineral are turning a once forlorn region of the state into a prospecting hotspot

    A conveyor belt loaded with gravel running through a large industrial mining site with various machinery and structures in the background, all secured by bright yellow safety barriers
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    The governor who is a dark horse for Brazil’s next presidential race

    Minas Gerais businessman-turned-politician Romeu Zema plays down talk of 2026 bid, but analysts are not convinced

    A man standing under an expansive roof of a building. He’s a middle-aged Caucasian wearing glasses and a dark-grey casual shirt
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    Brazilian niobium carves out an energy niche

    US research highlights Chinese involvement in metal’s production

    A historic photograph of an astronaut in a white space suit standing on the moon’s surface, with the lunar lander reflected in the visor of the helmet
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    Belo Horizonte looks to tech and quality of life to revive spirits

    The Minas Gerais state capital, Brazil’s first large planned city, confronts its 21st century challenges

    A scenic view of a public square lined with tall palm trees leading to a historic building with a classical facade
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    Minas plays focal role in effort to ease Brazil’s fertiliser problem

    State drive is under way to address vulnerability of nation’s agriculture to international events

    Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (leftmost) stands among workers of an industrial facility
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais
    As Minas goes, so goes Brazil

    The bellwether state of Minas Gerais is a microcosm of the country’s vast political, economic and social disparities

  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    BHP Group Ltd
    BHP told to hand over executives’ employment details in Brazil dam disaster litigation

    Claimants hope to bolster their case that managers were incentivised to push for cost cuts that contributed to the tragedy

    Car rests on top of a damaged house after a dam burst in 2015
  • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
    Mining
    BHP aims to settle over Brazil dam disaster

    A venture jointly owned by the miner and Vale faces alleged liabilities in the tens of billions of dollars

    A photo taken on November 6 2015 shows a general view where a dam burst in the village of Bento Rodrigues near Mariana in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais
  • Sunday, 28 August, 2022
    News in-depthBrazilian politics
    Bolsonaro and Lula fight it out in Brazil’s swing state

    In Minas Gerais, the far-right president’s social measures may not be enough to sway voters loyal to leftist rival

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro, and a map of Brazil
  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Vale SA
    Vale agrees to $7bn settlement over Brazil dam disaster

    Deal over Brumadinho breach that killed 270 people is Latin America’s largest such settlement

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    The Commodities NotePayal Sampat
    Why miners have failed to prevent waste dam disasters

    To ensure against future tragedies, the industry must not be in charge of enforcing safety rules

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
    Vale SA
    Vale ex-CEO charged with homicide over dam disaster

    Brazilian prosecutors also accuse miner and safety group of environmental crimes

    Fabio Schvartsman, chief executive officer of Vale SA, listens during a public hearing in a Lower House commission in Brasilia, Brazil, on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. "Vale is a Brazilian jewel that can not be condemned for an accident that happened in one of its dams, even as it was a tragedy," said Schvartsman. Photographer: Andre Coelho/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
    Vale SA
    Brazilian prosecutors plan to charge Vale over dam disaster

    Announcement expected almost a year on from deadly collapse that killed over 250 people

    FILE PHOTO: A view of the Brazilian mining company Vale's tailings dam in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais state, Brazil December 10, 2019. Picture taken December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves/File Photo
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2019
    Mining
    One in ten tailings dams experience ‘stability issues’, report finds

    Survey results raise safety concerns after fatal Brazilian collapse in January

    FILE PHOTO: Members of a rescue team search for victims after a tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA collapsed, in Brumadinho, Brazil January 28, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2019
    News in-depthVale SA
    Vale faces hard task to rebuild trust after Brazil dam disaster

    Tragedy that killed 251 was the second fatal mining disaster in the same state in 4 years

    Firefighters search for bodies in the region of Corrego do Feijao in Brumadinho, two days after the collapse of a dam at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's giant mining company Vale near the town of Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, on January 27, 2019. - Communities were devastated by a dam collapse that killed at least 37 people at a Brazilian mining complex -- with hopes fading for 250 still missing. A barrier at the site burst on Friday, spewing millions of tons of treacherous sludge and engulfing buildings, vehicles and roads. (Photo by Douglas Magno / AFP) (Photo credit should read DOUGLAS MAGNO/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2019
    The Commodities NoteMining
    Miners must earn this trust through action

    Clearer rules will help bring about safer tailings dams

    FILE PHOTO: Members of a rescue team react upon returning from the mission, after a tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA collapsed, in Brumadinho, Brazil January 28, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves/File Photo
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2019
    Brazil
    Miner Vale posts another quarterly loss following dam disaster
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
    Brazilian politics
    Manslaughter charges urged against Vale chiefs over Brazil dam collapse

    Senate recommends indictments against 12 mining executives in Brumadinho disaster

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by Antonio Lacerda/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (10073986p) Aerial view over mud and waste from the disaster caused by dam spill in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 26 January 2019. At least nine people have died and 300 are missing after a tailings dam burst at the Feijao mine in southeastern Brazil owned by Vale, the world's largest iron-ore producer, the Minas Gerais state government said. The dam in Brumadinho near Belo Horizonte broke on 25 January at around mid-day, unleashing a river of sludge that destroyed some nearby houses. At least nine dead and 300 missing after dam burst in Brazil, Brumadinho - 26 Jan 2019
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    The Commodities NoteCommodities
    Business as usual not an option for management of tailings dam

    An international standard is being developed following a Brazilian mine disaster

    A house lies in ruins after a dam collapsed near Brumadinho
  • Friday, 8 February, 2019
    Mining
    Evacuations ordered in Brazil on fears over dam breaches

    Residents moved from areas near Vale and ArcelorMittal operations

    The Corrego do Feijao mine owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA, is shown in this satellite photo, after a tailing dam collapse in Brumandinho, Brazil, taken January 29, 2019. Satellite image ©2019 DigitalGlobe, a Mazar Company/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES, NO ARCHIVE
  • Thursday, 7 February, 2019
    Commodities
    Iron ore prices surge above $90 a tonne
  • Thursday, 31 January, 2019
    Vale SA
    Death toll in Brazil’s dam accident surpasses 100 people
    Rescuers search for vicitms near the town of Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerias, southeastern Brazil three days after the collapse of a dam at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's giant mining company Vale on January 28, 2019. - A tsunami of toxic mud broke through a dam at an iron-ore mine owned by Vale on January 25. The official toll from the disaster was 58 dead and 305 missing as of late Sunday. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel / AFP)MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP/Getty Images
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