The trial for a class action lawsuit against Anglo-Australian multinational mining company BHP began on Monday in England, with 620,000 claimants seeking damages for the collapse of a tailings pond ...

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 ...

Ever since the Cobre Panamá mine was forced to shut down in 2023, the copper mine’s infrastructure has been eroding away in a biodiverse jungle on Panama’s Atlantic coast — a situation researchers say ...

BHP Group and Vale on Friday signed a $32 billion settlement with Brazilian authorities over the disastrous 2015 collapse of a mine-waste dam that killed 19 people and polluted more than 400 miles of ...

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 ...

BRUMADINHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian firefighters on Sunday resumed searching for hundreds of missing people and called off an evacuation of nearby residents after a mining dam ruptured on Friday, ...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - The collapse of a Brazilian dam controlled by miner Vale a week ago likely happened because parts of the sand and dried-mud structure dissolved into liquid, a state ...