A class action lawsuit in the U.K. will decide whether the Fundão tailings dam collapse was the fault of mining companies, Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP) and Miners Vale, which together make up the ...

Samarco Mineração, along with parent companies Vale (NYSE:VALE) and BHP (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP), has confirmed ongoing settlement negotiations with Brazilian authorities over the Fundão dam ...

The BHP Group, as with other mining giants, has much explaining to do in the way it has approached the environment. It has become a master of the greenwashing experiment, an adept promoter of sham ...

This photo shows the Bento Rodrigues District, in the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, after the Fundão tailings dam ruptured in 2015, causing a flood of mud that cascaded onto several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found that bananas, cassava, and cocoa grown near the 2015 Fundão dam collapse site contain elevated levels of toxic ...

This photo shows the Bento Rodrigues District, in the municipality of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, after the Fundão tailings dam ruptured in 2015, causing a flood of mud that cascaded onto several ...

Ben STANSALL/AFP/AFP A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an inadequate cleanup and compensation by international ...

BHP Group Ltd (AU:BHP) has released an update. BHP Group Ltd has announced that a Brazilian Federal Court has acquitted Samarco Mineração, BHP Billiton Brasil, Vale, and their consultant from criminal ...

The failure of the Fundao tailings dam unleashed a torrent of nearly 40 million cubic meters of highly toxic mine sludge over areas of the Mariana district, also in Minas Gerais. The mud killed 19 ...

The Fundao tailings dam at an iron ore mine in Minas Gerais state was managed by Samarco, co-owned by BHP and Brazilian miner Vale - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Win ...