Workers evacuated at Brazil's Samarco mine after new mudslide

Brazilian miner Samarco Mineracao said on Wednesday it evacuated some workers after rain caused a mudslide at the site where an iron-ore tailings damn burst in November, killing at least 17 people and leaving about 800 homeless. Samarco, a joint venture between miners Vale and BHP Billiton, said in a statement the mudslide involved residual mud left in the area devastated by the earlier dam burst.