Fundão tailings dam failures: the environment tragedy of the largest technological disaster of Brazilian mining in global context

Fonseca do Carmo, Flávio; Fonseca do Carmo, Flávio; Hiromi Yoshino Kamino, Luciana; Tobias, Rogério; Christina de Campos, Iara; Fonseca do Carmo, Felipe; Fonseca do Carmo, Felipe; Silvino, Guilherme; Junio da Silva Xavier de Castro, Kenedy; Leite Mauro, Mateus; Uchoa Alonso Rodrigues, Nelson; Paulo de Souza Miranda, Marcos; Eduardo Ferreira Pinto, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.pecon.2017.06.002

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Fundão tailings dam failures: the environment tragedy of the largest technological disaster of Brazilian mining in global context

Published in Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation • Jul 1, 2017

Authors:

Flávio Fonseca do Carmo

Luciana Hiromi Yoshino Kamino

Abstract

After the collapse of the Fundão dam, 43 million m 3 of iron ore tailings continue to cause environmental damage, polluting 668 km of watercourses from the Doce River to the Atlantic Ocean. The objectives of this study are to characterize the Fundão Tailings Dam and structural failures; improve the ...

Subject

Tailings

Context (archaeology)

Tailings dam

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