Search crews are looking for up to 300 missing people in southeastern Brazil, after a dam at an iron ore mining complex collapsed Friday, releasing a deluge of muddy mine waste that swallowed part of ...

Rio de Janeiro — Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for five people in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people as it plastered part of a city with reddish-brown ...

State prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged mining giant Vale, its German auditor and 16 individuals over a massive dam collapse that killed 270 people last year. The January 25 tailings dam ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The deadly collapse of a Vale SA's mining waste dam in Brazil was partially triggered by "a persistently high water level" that caused the structure to lose strength and ...

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - BHP was on Monday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, in a ‌London lawsuit potentially ...

(Alliance News) - BHP Group Ltd on Friday said the Federal Court of Australia has approved a settlement linked to the Brazilian dam collapse. Early in September, the Melbourne, Australia-based ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - After two deadly dam disasters that made Vale SA a pariah of the global green movement, Brazil's largest mining company is striving to put the environment and climate at the ...

In 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an embankment built to store byproducts of iron mining, collapsed in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collapse caused what many call the "worst environmental disaster" in ...

From a Brazilian mining company's toxic mudslide to China's Banqiao Dam disaster that killed 230,000 people and was hidden for 30 years, these catastrophic failures reveal how negligence, flawed ...