Brazil's Samarco requests extension for dam disaster guarantee
BRASILIA, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Samarco and its shareholders Vale SA and BHP Billiton (NYSE: BBL - news) have requested to extend until Jan. 19 a deadline to pay 1.2 billion reais ($375.39 million) in guarantees related to the collapse of a tailings dam in 2015, Vale (Swiss: VALE.SW - news) said in a statement on Monday.
The payment was meant to be made to a court in Minas Gerais state by Monday. ($1 = 3.1967 reais) (Reporting by Stephen Eisenhammer; editing by Diane Craft)