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 ...

A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday ordered mining giant Vale to pay for all the damage caused by a tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds of people in one of the country's worst industrial ...

Helena Taliberti spoke to SBS Portuguese from the airport of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where she was about to return to São Paulo after spending 15 days in Brumadinho desperately looking for her ...

A dam collapsed in southeast Brazil Friday, unleashing a torrent of mud that was feared to have killed a number of people living in an area close to the city of Belo Horizonte, a local fire service ...

LONDON (Reuters) -BHP faces a full contempt of court hearing in Britain for funding litigation to try to prevent some Brazilian municipalities suing the mining giant over one of Brazil's worst ...

Vale (VALE) has started to reward investors who have stayed the course, and the mining company's turnaround points to more upside.

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) -BHP and Vale are facing a London lawsuit from the law firm representing hundreds of thousands of people over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, alleging the companies sought to ...

Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental disaster, by London's High Court. The dam collapse killed 19 people, ...

FILE PHOTO: A helicopter flies over the Bento Rodrigues district, covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst in Mariana LONDON (Reuters) -BHP faces a full contempt of ...