In the valley beneath the remains of the collapsed Córrego do Feijão dam in Brumadinho, Brazil, the search for the dead continues.
More than 166 people are confirmed to have perished when the dam owned by Vale, the world’s biggest iron ore miner, collapsed three weeks ago, unleashing a torrent of millions of cubic metres of mining waste. Almost 200 people, many of them employees of the Brazilian mining giant, are still missing, presumed buried beneath the thick red mud.
Around the world in the offices of the big global miners, executives preparing to report their financial results over the next few days are bracing themselves for questions from investors about the safety of their own mining waste.
The high death toll of the Brumadinho