Brazil Sues BHP Billiton, Vale for $5 Billion, India Wants More Gold

Published: Dec 3, 2015 10:02

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Brazil’s government got more aggressive about penalizing the owners of what it says is its worst mining disaster ever and India wants to unlock the potential of its citizens hoarded gold

by Jeff Yoders on DECEMBER 1, 2015

Brazil’s government got more aggressive about penalizing the owners of what it says is its worst mining disaster ever and India wants to unlock the potential of its citizens hoarded gold

Samarco Disaster Lawsuit

Brazil filed a lawsuit on Monday against two of the world’s largest mining companies for 20 billion Brazilian reals (about $5 billion) to clean up what it says was its worst environmental disaster, caused by the collapse of a tailings dam at a joint venture iron ore mine the two operated.

The governments of Brazil and those of two states hit by the damburst sued iron ore operator Samarco and its co-owners, the world’s largest miner BHP Billiton Ltd. and the biggest iron ore miner Vale SA.

India Wants Citizens To Sell it Their Gold

India is discussing changes to a scheme to unlock the country’s massive stash of gold at a high-level meeting this week, after a muted response to the program in the first month of its launch, according to banking sources.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the plan on Nov. 5 to lure an estimated 20,000 metric tons of gold hoarded in households and temples into the banking system. But only 400 grams trickled in over the first two weeks as low returns and worries over income tax kept Indians away.

Source:metalminer

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