The breakdown of the Fundão dam in the south-east of the nation caused a goliath landslide that killed 19 individuals.
It additionally seriously contaminated the Rio Doce stream, compromising the stream to its outlet in the Atlantic Sea.
It was not promptly clear how much each organization is expected to pay.
Judge Vinicius Cobucci said the organizations were obligated for "moral harms", or non-material mischief, for example, profound pain endured by those impacted by the occurrence.
He added that the cash, which will be adapted to expansion beginning around 2015, will be placed into a state reserve and utilized for tasks and drives in the space affected by the dam breakdown.
The decision came in light of a common activity brought by state and government public examiners.
Vale let the BBC know that it had not yet been educated about the decision.
The organization additionally expressed that starting around December last year, the Renova Establishment, which the organizations have been utilizing to make remuneration installments, has so far paid out 34.7bn reais.
BHP didn't quickly answer demands for input from the BBC. Samarco declined to remark.
The decision takes into account the organizations to pursue the choice.
Samarco is a 50-50 joint endeavor between Australian mining bunch BHP and Brazil's Vale.
The debacle in Minas Gerais state, which additionally dislodged 700 individuals, is viewed as one of the nation's most terrible natural calamities.
At the point when the dam burst, it released a downpour of thick, red harmful mud that cleared out the town of Bento Rodrigues.
It additionally dirtied the Rio Doce stream and Atlantic Sea 650km away, pulverizing untamed life and polluting drinking water for a huge number of individuals.
A report delivered in 2016 observed that the breakdown of the dam was because of configuration defects.
The specialized report, charged by Samarco's joint proprietors BHP and Vale, didn't relegate fault for the calamity.
Dams holding mining waste, known as "tailings", normally have walls made of a combination of sand-like particles and earth like residue.
The report said that an adjustment of the Fundão dam's plan somewhere in the range of 2011 and 2012 prompted less effective water waste, and eventually to the dam's breakdown on 5 November 2015.
Sand in the dam walls became soaked, and suddenly began to act more like a fluid, in a cycle known as "liquefaction".
A little seismic tremor upon the arrival of the dam burst may likewise have "sped up" the disappointment, the report added.
The fiasco set off serious examination of security strategies in the mining business.
BHP and Vale likewise face a legal claim in the UK with in excess of 700,000 petitioners.
In January 2019, one more tailings dam claimed by Vale imploded in a similar state close to the town of Brumadinho, bringing about 270 passings.
