2019 Brumadinho dam disaster
The Corrego do Feijao tailings dam, owned by the iron ore producer Vale, collapsed in the mining town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil. The mine sits in the Corrego do Feijao district of the municipality.
- Date
- 2019-01-25
- Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)
- 270
- What the pin marks
- The failed tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão mine, as the cited page positions it.
- Where the position is published
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster
Category: Disasters & Incidents
Tags: brazil, tailings dam, mining, vale
Coordinates: -20.11972, -44.12139
Part of Dam failures that killed 100 or more people since 1900
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- 1972 Buffalo Creek flood
- 1959 Vega de Tera dam failure
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- 1935 Sella Zerbino dam failure at Molare
- 1923 Gleno Dam failure
- 2023 Derna dam collapses
- 1985 Val di Stava dam collapse
- 1963 Vajont Dam disaster
- 1972 Canyon Lake Dam failure in the Black Hills flood
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