At 3.45 pm on 5 November 2015, the 110m tall Fundao Mine Tailings Dam, located in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, collapsed in a liquefaction flowslide. The failure released approximately 43M.m~3 of iron ore tailings into the environment, polluting over 600km of watercourses (Fonseca do Carmo et al, 2017) and resulting in 19 deaths. The event was considered at the time to be Brazil's worst environmental disaster and has to date cost the mine's owners billions of dollars (Ridley and Lewis, 2019).
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机译：2015年11月5日下午3.45，位于巴西东南部米纳斯吉拉斯州的110m高的Fundao矿山尾矿坝因液化滑坡塌陷。这次失败将大约43M.m〜3的铁矿石尾矿释放到环境中，污染了600多公里的河道（Fonseca do Carmo等人，2017），导致19人死亡。该事件当时被认为是巴西最严重的环境灾难，迄今为止已使矿主损失了数十亿美元（Ridley and Lewis，2019）。
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