The agreement calls for Defense and the band to collaborate on the design of the Wicheeda project to assure the band’s interests and priorities are addressed.
The company has applied for a 'substantially started' status, which, if approved, would make KSM's environmental assessment certificate valid for the life of the project.
According to Valor Econômico, the federal government is attempting to appoint former Brazilian Minister of Finance Guido Mantega as a Vale executive director.
Certain features of the tailings dam at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine in Brumadinho may have been the cause of the accident that killed 270 people.