The toll from a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil has risen to 134 deaths after more than a week of searches, with 199 missing, authorities said Monday. The count showed the gradual recovery ...

Five days after a dam collapse at a Brazilian mine, residents were mourning Wednesday the nearly 360 people killed and missing — as well the river they live alongside, which is dying from spreading ...

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 but destined to ...

Researchers found that mining waste from the 2015 Mariana dam disaster persists in soil and water, entering local crops — indicating ongoing contamination. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian state prosecutor expects to bring criminal charges "in the next few days" against miner Vale over a mining waste dam collapse that killed at least 259 ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the aftermath of Brazil's deadliest mine disaster, a nasty and familiar feud has broken out. Green groups and community activists blamed avaricious industrialists, ...

Brumadinho, Brazil — Firefighters are carefully moving over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies left by a dam collapse that buried mine buildings ...

(Reuters) - BHP Group Ltd said on Thursday it had met licensing requirements to restart operations and had begun iron ore pellet production at its Samarco joint venture with Brazil's Vale SA, five ...

The compensation agreement with miners Vale (VALE), BHP (BHP), and the Samarco joint venture for the 2015 tailings dam collapse in Mariana has been joined by 19 new cities, including the city that was ...

BHP (BHP) won its effort to throw out a contempt of court case in the U.K. over the funding of litigation to try to prevent some Brazilian municipalities suing the company in London ‌over the 2015 ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale SA <VALE3.SA> on Wednesday said it swung to a quarterly loss as the company announced more than $2 billion in fresh writedowns related to two deadly dam ...