SAO PAULO -- A dam holding back mining waste collapsed Friday in Brazil, inundating a nearby community in reddish-brown sludge and leaving an estimated 200 people missing, authorities and the mining ...

Mining is essential to modern lifestyles. Copper, iron and other mined products are vital to the products many people take for granted, like electronic devices. Being able to buy these goods quite ...

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BHP is hunting for a million tonnes of rock to reinforce an ageing tailings dam that the company admits does not meet global ...

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 ...

The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil has risen to 134 deaths after more than a week of searches, and 199 missing, authorities said Monday. Emergency services admit that not all ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Lax regulations, chronic short staffing and a law that muffled the voices of environmentalists on mining licenses made the devastating collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil all ...

LONDON — A lawyer argued Thursday that global mining giant BHP Group should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse poured tons of toxic mining waste ...

Only four years earlier, 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 ...

Huddling before my computer on a September afternoon, I was transported virtually to a community center in the town of Bethel ...