Minas Gerais state environmental regulator, FEAM, said this week it will likely halt works at an iron ore site owned by Itaminas following a water slope collapse this week.
A wall at an Itaminas iron ore landfill located at its Engenho Seco mine in Sarzedo city in Minas Gerais state collapsed this week. Brazilian mining regulator, ANM, and FEAM have inspected Itamina’s faulty landfill.
The company said nobody was hurt and there were no damages to the environment. Itaminas said the collapse of its water slope doesn’t affect its iron ore dams. FEAM’s technicians found the collapse occurred near a site where Itaminas was carrying out expansion works to set up a beneficiation plant.
The halt in works near the affected site will not interfere with iron ore activity at the remainder of Engenho Seco mine, the company said.