The mining company Vale has carried out a new evacuation "preventive" in Minas Gerais

Brazilian miner Vale ordered this Saturday the evacuation of some 200 people living near one of its mining dams in Minas Gerais (southeast), where end of January the break of another of his deposits left 313 dead and missing.

"The decision is a precautionary measure and comes after reviewing data from badytical reports prepared by specialized companies hired to advise Vale," the company said in a statement.

It's an "inactive" dam, Said Vale, located in its Mar Azul mine, in the municipality of Nova Lima, in the metropolitan area of ​​Belo Horizonte.

The evacuation, carried out jointly with the Civil Defense and the local authorities, includes 49 residences and businesses in the city of Macacos, 25 km from the state capital.

The inhabitants are directed to a community center and will be hosted in hotels in the area, the company added.

On February 8, an additional 500 people were evacuated preventively around two other mines, one belonging to Vale and the other to global steel giant ArcelorMittal.

The Brazilian mining giant, the world's largest producer of iron ore, was the owner of the breakwater that broke out in Brumadinho. generating a tsunami of 13 million cubic meters of mud and mine waste.

In its fatal descent of about nine kilometers to the Paraopeba River, which is now polluted with sediment, destroyed the administrative facilities of the mine, the dining room where many employees had lunch, an inn and several houses in the rural area of ​​Brumadinho.

Under a sea of ​​dry mud that occupies about 290 hectares, the firefighters found 166 bodies, but 147 people are still missing.

Eight Vale representatives, including managers and technicians directly involved in the safety of the broken breakwater, they were arrested this Friday to determine their responsibility in the "hundreds of homicide crimes" derived from the tragedy, according to the Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor.

This is not the first time that the company is involved in a disaster of enormous magnitude in recent years. In 2015, a dike from a Samarco mine (a joint project of Vale and the Australian BHP) broke out, generating a new tide of mud that left 19 dead and the worst environmental disaster in the world. 39, history of Brazil.