State prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged mining giant Vale, its German auditor and 16 individuals over a massive dam collapse that killed 270 people last year. Aerial view of Brazilian mining ...

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 ...

Vale (VALE) said that Samarco, BHP Billiton Brasil (BHP) and Vale, together with the Brazilian Federal Government, the State Governments of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, the Federal and State ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

BHP (BHP) -3.2% pre-market Friday after the English High Court ruled it is liable for the deadly collapse of a tailings dam ...

Brazilian authorities arrested eight employees of mining giant Vale on Friday over a dam collapse at one of its mines three weeks ago that killed at least 166 people and left 147 missing, presumed ...

LONDON (Reuters) -BHP is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, London's High Court ruled on Friday, ...

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 ...

The High Court in London found BHP liable for the 2015 collapse of the Fundao dam in Brazil, resulting in a lawsuit potentially worth £36 billion. The collapse caused Brazil's worst environmental ...

FILE - Debris is visible after a dam burst at the small town of Bento Rodrigues in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Debris is visible after a dam burst at ...