20 December 2020

Vale landslide kills one

A landslide at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão mine in Brazil killed one person on Friday.

Cava Feijao
Córrego do Feijão © Vale

The man was, Vale says, using an excavator, carrying out maintenance activities, when he was hit by a landslide from the paralysed pit embankment. The mine is close to Brumadinho, the site of the 2019 dam disaster.

Maintenance activities have been suspended.

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