Under the agreement, Samarco — a joint venture of Brazilian mining giant Vale and Anglo ... “We are fixing a disaster that could have been avoided, but wasn’t,” President Luiz Inácio ...

Certainly, the scars of Brazil's worst mining disaster are still raw. Yet, within just four months, another community in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais faces being obliterated from the ...

PROSECUTORS charged 21 Brazilian and foreign mining executives with manslaughter and environmental crimes on Thursday over last year’s mine disaster that killed 19. Minas Gerais state attorney general ...

More than 620,000 individuals are seeking £36 billion in compensation for damages caused by a deluge of deadly sludge that poured through towns when a tailings dam burst.

In January, one such dam operated by miner Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, collapsed, unleashing a wave of mud that likely killed more than 300 people Brazil's government on Monday ...

Australian mining giant BHP goes on trial on Monday over one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, potentially ...

A new international mining sector standard, compiled by some of the industry’s most powerful players, is the latest example ...

a tailings-dam collapse at the Samarco mine in Brazil, co-owned by Vale and BHP Group Ltd., killed 19 and caused what analysts described as that country’s worst environmental disaster to date.

Brazilian miner Vale SA churned out 327.7 million metric tons of iron ore in 2024, the highest in six years, though fourth-quarter production came in slightly below expectations.

The collapse of the dam at the iron ore mine, near the city of Mariana in south-eastern Brazil, unleashed a wave of tailings ...