Brazilian prosecutors have filed a US$43.4 billion lawsuit against BHP Billiton and Vale over the Samarco mine dam burst that killed 19 and wreaked environmental havoc. The authorities “estimate the preliminary value for repairs to be 155 billion reals,” the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Minas Gerais said in a statement. The accident on November 5 last year near Mariana in Minas Gerais began when a tailings dam at Samarco’s mine failed, unleashing a flood of polluted water and mud into the River Doce, one of the biggest in Brazil. A village was destroyed and drinking water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people were severed.
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