In the rural community of Jangada, in the municipality of ​​Brumadinho in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, the water that supplies local families comes from springs that emerge onsite. In a Youtube video ...

Oct. 26 (UPI) --Two international mining corporations have finalized a $30 billion settlement with the Brazilian government over a deadly dam collapse in 2015 that remains the worst environmental ...

Recent research shows how mining companies in Brazil are artificially inflating risk levels for some dams holding mining waste in an effort to scare residents into moving out of the area. This ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Workers with Brazilian mining company Vale were eating lunch when a dam that held back waste collapsed, burying the restaurant and surrounding community in reddish-brown sludge, ...

(RTTNews) - In light of recent press articles regarding the negotiations for a definitive settlement related to the Fundao dam collapse in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Vale S.A. (VALE) confirmed ...

(Reuters) -Mining giant BHP said on Friday it had reached a deal with Brazilian peer Vale to split equally the cost of any damages related to proceedings in Britain over a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil ...

Brazillian mining company Vale (NYSE:VALE) has estimated the fines and compensation costs related to the 2015 Samarco dam collapse at $30 billion. The settlement under discussion would cover past and ...

The death toll from the collapse of a dam holding back mine waste in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 on Saturday as searchers flying in helicopters and rescuers laboring in deep mud uncovered more ...

Vale (VALE) said that Samarco, BHP Billiton Brasil (BHP) and Vale, together with the Brazilian Federal Government, the State Governments of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, the Federal and State ...

Brazilian authorities arrested eight employees of mining giant Vale on Friday over a dam collapse at one of its mines three weeks ago that killed at least 166 people and left 147 missing, presumed ...