How big is the BHP Samarco damage?
From Fairfax, it’s getting bigger: Pedro Eduardo Pinheiro Silva, a lawyer who represents a community association in another state, filed the case on Monday, according to the Minas Gerais court website. He’s demanding the mining giants’s joint venture Samarco Mineração pay 10 billion reais ($3.69 billion) as compensation for environmental damages, he said in a telephone interview.