[HTML][HTML] Negative impacts of mining on Neotropical freshwater fishes

VM Azevedo-Santos, MS Arcifa, MFG Brito… - Neotropical …, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Mining activities have significantly affected the Neotropical freshwater ichthyofauna, the
most diverse in the world. However, no study has systematized knowledge on the subject. In …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term contamination of the Rio Doce estuary as a result of Brazil's largest environmental disaster

FÂ Gabriel, AD Ferreira, HM Queiroz… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rio Doce basin in SE Brazil was critically impacted in November 2015 by the
spillage of millions of tons of mining waste. In the Rio Doce estuary, the tailings removed …

First year after the Brumadinho tailings' dam collapse: Spatial and seasonal variation of trace elements in sediments, fishes and macrophytes from the Paraopeba …

CET Parente, AS Lino, GO Carvalho… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
On January 2019, the B1 iron ore tailings' dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil, being one
of the worst mining-related disasters, with 270 human deaths (11 of them still missing) and …

Contamination and oxidative stress biomarkers in estuarine fish following a mine tailing disaster

FÂ Gabriel, RA Hauser-Davis, L Soares, ACA Mazzuco… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Background The Rio Doce estuary, in Brazil, was impacted by the deposition of iron mine
tailings, caused by the collapse of a dam in 2015. Based on published baseline datasets …

Ecotoxicological impacts of the Fundão dam failure in freshwater fish community: Metal bioaccumulation, biochemical, genetic and histopathological effects

CED Vieira, JA Marques, NG da Silva… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates the ecotoxicological impacts of the Fundão dam rupture, one of the
major environmental disaster that occurred in Brazil and in the world mining industry history …

Franciscana dolphins, Pontoporia blainvillei, as environmental sentinels of the world's largest mining disaster: temporal trends for organohalogen compounds and …

N de Oliveira-Ferreira, BMR Manhães… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract On November 5th, 2015, the Fundão dam collapsed in Minas Gerais, southeastern
Brazil, releasing millions of cubic meters of mud containing mining residue into the Doce …

The Igarapé Weir decelerated transport of contaminated sediment in the Paraopeba River after the failure of the B1 tailings dam (Brumadinho)

DPS Terêncio, FAL Pacheco, RF do Valle Junior… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The B1 dam of Córrego do Feijão Mine, owned by Vale, SA mining company and located on
the Ferro-Carvão stream, collapsed and injected 2.8 Mm 3 of clayey, silty, and sandy iron …

From molecular endpoints to modeling longer-term effects in fish embryos exposed to the elutriate from Doce River

FY Yamamoto, ATC Souza, VCS de Paula… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sediments represent a major sink and also a main source of contaminants to aquatic
environments. An environmental disaster from a mining dam breakage in 2015 in South …

Earlier biomarkers in fish evidencing stress responses to metal and organic pollution along the Doce River Basin

FY Yamamoto, K Onishi, TR Ralha, LFO Silva… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Doce River Basin (DRB) represents a well-described watershed in terms of
contamination by metals, especially after a major environmental disaster of a mining tailing …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining the persistence of hazardous chemicals in the Doce River (Brazil) by multiple sources of contamination and a major environmental disaster

FY Yamamoto, GFE Pauly, LS Nascimento… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
High concentrations of hazardous chemicals may be introduced into aquatic ecosystems
during episodes of acute and chronic environmental contamination. This study aimed to …