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Exclusive: Brazil Prosecutor Aims to Charge Vale Within Days Over Mining Waste Dam Disaster

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Date Published: 
January 8, 2020
Authors: 
Christian Plumb
Marta Nogueira

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian state prosecutor expects to bring criminal charges "in the next few days" against miner Vale VALE3.SA over a mining waste dam collapse that killed at least 259 people, even as the prosecutor's federal counterpart continues to investigate the case.

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Nogueira, M., and C. Plumb. 2020. Exclusive: Brazil prosecutor aims to charge Vale within days over mining waste dam disaster. Reuters, 8 January.

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