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[Image description: a patch of woods and a road hit by the mine overflow.]

The regulatory National Mining Agency (ANM) suspended operations of French steel pipe maker Vallourec at its Pau Branco iron-ore mine in Brazil on Sunday, a day after a dike at the mine overflowed and cut off a federal highway, the company said.

The overflow of the dike cut off traffic on Saturday on the BR-040, a major highway linking Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.

"The company is working with the competent bodies and authorities to minimize the disturbances that have occurred and to restore normality," Vallourec said in a statement.

The company did not immediately answer requests for information on its current production volume at its mine in Nova Lima in Minas Gerais State.

[Image description: the company's logo is seen on top of the entrance of French oil industry tubing maker Vallourec at Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, France, February 1, 2016.]

Vallourec was fined 288.6 million reais ($51.6 million) for environmental damage by the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where heavy rainfall caused a dike owned by the French steel pipe maker to overflow on Saturday.

The state government notified the company on Monday, it said in a statement on its official website, while also immediately suspending activities related to the Lisa dike and the Cachoeirinha pile until documents are presented to guarantee the stability of such structures.

Saturday's incident took place at Vallourec's Pau Branco mine near Nova Lima, causing the closure of the BR-40 highway linking Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro.

[Image description: the Pau Branco mine.]

Heavy rainfall caused a dike to overflow on Saturday at a Brazil iron ore mine owned by French steel pipe maker Vallourec , cutting off a major federal highway, the local fire department said.

Nobody was injured and there was no risk of flooding of  communities near the Pau Branco mine near Nova Lima, in the mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, fire service spokesman Pedro Aihara told reporters.

"It was a dike for the containment of rainwater," he said, dismissing press reports that a tailings dam might have burst. "There was no structural problem."

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