The environmental impacts of one of the largest tailing dam failures worldwide

Hatje, Vanessa; M.A. Pedreira, Rodrigo; Eduardo de Rezende, Carlos; Augusto França Schettini, Carlos; Cotrim de Souza, Gabriel; Canaver Marin, Danieli; Christian Hackspacher, Peter

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11143-x

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The environmental impacts of one of the largest tailing dam failures worldwide

Published in Scientific Reports • Aug 31, 2017

Authors:

Vanessa Hatje

Rodrigo M.A. Pedreira

Carlos Eduardo de Rezende

Abstract

Abstract The impacts of the SAMARCO iron tailing spill along more than 650 km, between the dam and the plume of the Doce River in the Atlantic, were assessed by the determination of toxic metals. The tailing spill caused a substantial increase in suspended sediment loads (up to 33,000 mg L −1 ), in ...

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Sediment

Environmental science

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