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Brazil mining agency to hire more inspectors, allowing annual checks on all tailings dams Reuters 1/28/2021
By Marta Nogueira
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Brazil s National Mining Agency (ANM) is set to hire 40 more safety inspectors, to more than double the total number of inspectors, allowing it to check all the country s tailings dams annually, the agency s director told Reuters on Thursday.
A 2019 disaster at iron ore miner Vale s Brumadinho dam - the second fatal collapse at a Vale-affiliated facility in four years - alerted the mining industry and investors to the dangers of thousands of tailings dams around the world, many of which are in disrepair.