BRUMADINHO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale needs to change its behaviour, cooperate more with authorities and be more transparent after a deadly dam collapse at one of its mines that likely ...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in January and killed at least 165 people had a heightened risk of ...

Nearly a week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with nearly 350 killed or missing, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated.

The company had said on June 4 it had stopped some activities at its Mariana complex near Xingu, following a notification from the regional labour superintendent (SRT), which was expected to have an ...

Seven years after a dam holding mining sludge collapsed in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killing 272 people, mining giant Vale and its partner Itaminas are resuming operations at the very same ...

BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — Authorities arrested five people Tuesday in connection with the collapse of a Brazilian mine dam, while the death toll rose to at least 84 and the carcasses of fish floated ...

BOGOTA – A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now call “the death of the river,” they say they could feel it coming. The birds stopped singing, the air grew heavy, and an unusual silence ...

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 ...

Just six years on from the horrific Brumadinho disaster, it is still difficult to talk about mine tailings without recalling those events. The sudden failure of the dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ...

Residents of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil paid homage on Saturday to the 270 people killed one year ago when a nearby dam burst, spewing millions of tons of mining waste over homes and farmland ...

Rescue crew work in a tailings dam owned by Brazilian miner Vale SA that burst, in Brumadinho, Brazil January 25, 2019. REUTERS/Washington Alves TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – RC1B661368C0 ...