ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
Mining major BHP Billiton and its joint venture (JV) partner Vale have set a June 30 deadline to conclude negotiations with Brazilian prosecutors over the 2015 Samarco tailing dams failure, which killed 19 people.
The parties have reached a preliminary agreement with Brazil, which outlines the process and timeline for the negotiation of a $47.5-billion civil claim brought by federal prosecutors in May last year, BHP said in a statement on Thursday.
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