MINER'S RIGHT

Dam mining industry incompetence

An incident every 1.5 years is a conservative measure of industry failings

Dead fish in the Tisza ... the Baia Mare disaster in 2000 wasn't considered by Macquarie (photo: Karnok Csaba)

Dead fish in the Tisza ... the Baia Mare disaster in 2000 wasn't considered by Macquarie (photo: Karnok Csaba)

That might seem like a statement of the obvious after the bursting of the Fundao dam at the Samarco iron ore project in Brazil but it’s actually a far deeper comment because the list of accidents involving...

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