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UN calls for probe into Vale’s tailings as waste heads to Brazilian river system

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 30, 2019 | 10:15 am Latin America Iron Ore 

United Nations human rights experts called for an urgent and impartial investigation on Wednesday into the collapse of Vale’s tailing dam in Brazil, which killed at least 99 people, as well as into the toxicity of the mining waste, which is...

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