BHP Billiton one year on from the Samarco Fundão dam disaster
Peter KerResources reporter
Andrew Mackenzie was rushing towards South America when he took a call from an old friend. A dam failure had killed scores of people at a BHP site in Brazil just days earlier, and there was little time for social calls.
But the BHP chief executive made an exception for Tony Hayward's call.
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Peter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com
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