Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil. May Brumadinho be treated not only as a local case ...

The Fire Brigade of Minas Gerais announced it will resume on August 27th the search for still missing bodies of 11 victims of the dam collapse in Brumadinho last year, which killed 270 people. Work ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Soldier helps a member of a rescue team on Paraopeba River as they search for victims of a collapsed tailings dam ...

Brazilian mining giant Vale signed a settlement deal on Thursday to pay 37.7 billion reais (US$ 7 billion) to the state of Minas Gerais, following the collapse of a dam two years ago that devastated ...

An alarm warning of an imminent mining dam rupture was issued on Sunday morning near Brumadinho, the same Brazilian community where the collapse of a dam at Vale’s (NYSE:VALE) Córrego do Feijão mining ...

The disaster near the small town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil occurred shortly after midday on 25 January 2019. At a nearby iron ore mine, the tailings dam—a storage area for the sludgy, ...

In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, and caused widespread environmental damage. Since then, engineers ...

Brumadinho, Brazil - Hope that loved ones had survived a tsunami of iron ore mine waste from a dam collapse in Brazil was turning to anguish and anger over the increasing likelihood that many of the ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Workers at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine were on their lunch break on January 25 2019 when a dam at the ...

The reason why the Brumadinho dam broke specifically three years after the pond was last loaded with tailings has remained unclear until now. Using numerical modelling, researchers at ETH Zurich have ...