London, Feb 4, 2026 (AFP) - BHP damages trial over Brazil mine disaster to open in 2027

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Australian mining giant BHP will face trial before a British court from April next year to determine how much it must pay in damages to victims of a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, lawyers said Wednesday. In one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, an iron-ore mine run by a firm co-owned by BHP unleashed a deluge of toxic mud into villages, fields, rainforest, rivers and the ocean, killing 19 people. In November, the High Court in London found......

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