BHP and Vale are embroiled in a London lawsuit over Brazil's worst environmental disaster, accused of cheating a law firm out ...

BHP and Vale are facing a London lawsuit from the law firm representing hundreds of thousands of people over Brazil's worst ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced in July 2025 that the multi-billion-dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam ...

Earlier this year, the Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI) was launched to champion the cause to help make mine ...

On November 5, 2015, a tailings dam collapsed releasing iron ore sludge into the Rio Doce (Sweet River) in southeastern Brazil. The toxic waste contaminated the river water and damaged its ecosystem.

Brazil was still recovering from another mining disaster — a dam collapse in November 2015 at an iron ore mine co-owned by Vale and Australia’s BHP — when the tragedy struck.

revealing the uncontrollable force of water as it demolishes everything in its path.The Brumadinho Dam collapse in Brazil, for instance, released a massive wave of toxic sludge, wreaking havoc on ...

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 so ...

The Itaipu dam, with a capacity to generate some 14,000 megawatts of electricity, has long been a sore subject in Paraguay. Many Paraguayans consider the original treaty — in mandating Paraguay to ...

REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes [1/2]The Bento Rodrigues district is pictured covered with mud after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst in Mariana, Brazil, November 6, 2015.

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay announced Tuesday that it was recalling its ambassador to Brazil a day after Brazilian authorities acknowledged that their country’s intelligence agency ...