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BHP hit by $5 billion lawsuit over 2015 dam failure in Brazil

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 07, 2019 | 7:00 am Latin America Iron Ore 

The world’s largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE: BHP) is facing a $5 billion lawsuit in England, which claims the company was “woefully negligent” in the run-up to the 2015 Samarco dam failure in Brazil, the country’s worst environmental disaster. The...

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