FILE PHOTO: A helmet with a logo of Vale SA is seen in a collapsed tailings dam owned by the company, in Brumadinho, Brazil February 13, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian iron ore miner Vale said on Tuesday that it had conducted two planned explosions near its upstream tailings dam whose collapse killed nearly 250 people in January, but only after the dam burst.
"After the burst, as a safety measure, two explosions which had already been planned were carried out, at a distance and with safe loads," Vale said in a statement, adding their objective had been to eliminate any risk from existing explosives in the mine complex.
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