This text, below, from The Guardian:
Nearly one year on from the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history, the Gualaxo do Norte river in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais still runs iron-ore red.
At 3.45pm on 5 November 2015 a huge tailings dam operated by Brazilian mining company Samarco collapsed and a tidal wave of 32m to 40m cubic meters of mining waste washed across the bucolic countryside of pretty green valleys, villages and farmland.
The waste - a liquid mix of water, sands and clays – killed 19 people, destroyed villages, left hundreds homeless, and killed fish and aquatic life as it flowed on down the bigger River Doce to the sea more than 600km away.
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