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Supported

The cited record supports the material proposition.

Vale said in February 2021 that it signed a global settlement for Brumadinho with the State of Minas Gerais and public authorities worth about BRL 37.7 billion.

About
Vale S.A.
Claim made by
Vale S.A., company statement
Published
4 February 2021
Original
Vale informs on the Global Settlement for Brumadinho
Evidence score
73 How it was scored
Last reviewed
25 October 2026

Why this label

Vale's filing gives the economic value as BRL 37,689,767,329 and names the State of Minas Gerais, the state Public Defender and state and federal prosecutors as counterparties, with mediation by the Minas Gerais Court of JusticeS4. The filing states that individual damages are excluded and are handled through separate settlementsS4. The claim is a company statement and the agreement text itself was not read. The settlement resolves collective socio-environmental and socio-economic demands. It does not resolve the criminal caseS5.

Current procedural position

Global settlement signed on 4 February 2021S4. Individual damages excluded. The criminal case continues separatelyS6.

Record supporting the assessment

The Global Settlement has an economic value of R$ 37,689,767,329.00
S4 Tier B Vale S.A., Vale informs on the Global Settlement for Brumadinho, 4 February 2021

Conflicting or limiting record

Indemnifications for divisible individual damages are excluded from the Global Settlement.
S4 Tier B Vale S.A., Vale informs on the Global Settlement for Brumadinho, 4 February 2021

Evidence score: 73 of 100

The score grades how well the record establishes this assessment. It is not a score of Vale S.A.. Score = source authority + directness + corroboration + procedural accuracy + currency + reproducibility.

ComponentPointsMaxReason
Source authorityIs the source competent to establish the proposition?2030A company filing is competent for the terms it agreed, but it is not the court record.
DirectnessDoes the source state the proposition or only discuss adjacent facts?1920The filing states the value and parties directly.
CorroborationDo independent records support the same material point?615No independent record of the settlement was read.
Procedural accuracyDoes the record settle the procedural state the claim describes?1115A signed settlement, with its court homologation not reviewed here.
CurrencyHas the record been checked against later developments?710No later change was found within the search limit.
ReproducibilityCan a reader locate the passage and repeat the assessment?1010The filing is on sec.gov.
Total73100

Timeline

  1. Vale signs the Brumadinho global settlementS4

Revision history

  • Assessment first published with label Supported.

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Sources

  1. S4Tier B Vale informs on the Global Settlement for BrumadinhoVale S.A.. Company filing. 4 February 2021.Company statement on the value, parties and exclusions of the 2021 settlement. The agreement text was not read.
  2. S5Tier C Tragédia em Brumadinho: processo criminal será desmembrado em trêsInfoMoney (Agencia Brasil). Press report. 26 January 2023.Agencia Brasil report on acceptance of the charges, the 16 individual defendants and the split of the case. Credited to the agency, no named reporter. The page title continues after a semicolon, which is cut here.Link working, checked 25 October 2026
  3. S6Tier C Justiça define calendário, e audiências de testemunhas no processo criminal por Brumadinho vão até 2027O Fator. Press report. 21 October 2025.Report by Lucas Ragazzi on the hearing calendar. It counts 15 defendants and says a former Vale chief executive was excluded by a habeas corpus ruling under appeal.

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