FILE PHOTO: Soldier helps a member of a rescue team on Paraopeba River as they search for victims of a collapsed tailings dam owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA, in Brumadinho BRASILIA (Reuters ...

Federal Police in Minas Gerais, Brazil, expect to receive the forensic report by the end of March on the cause of the tailings liquefaction that led to the dam collapse at Vale’s (NYSE: VALE) Córrego ...

Brazilian mining giant Vale signed a settlement deal on Thursday to pay 37.7 billion reais (US$ 7 billion) to the state of Minas Gerais, following the collapse of a dam two years ago that devastated ...

The Brazilian Federal Court has accepted the complaint filed by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) against 16 people and the companies Vale and Tüv Süd for the rupture of the Córrego do Feijão dam in ...

Dr Breno Nunes received funding from British Council to organise Newton Fund Researcher Links Workshops. Flávio Hourneaux Junior received funding from Brazilian Agency CNPq and British Council to ...

In 2019, the collapse of an iron-ore tailings dam in Brumadinho, southeastern Brazil, killed 272 people, flattened entire villages, and caused widespread environmental damage. Since then, engineers ...

Brazilian activists continue to campaign for justice two years on from the Brumadinho mining disaster in Brazil. May Brumadinho be treated not only as a local case ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Workers at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine were on their lunch break on January 25 2019 when a dam at the ...

A dam that held back mining waste has collapsed in Brazil, inundating a nearby community with reddish-brown sludge, killing at least 34 people and leaving hundreds of others missing. Nine people have ...

Elias Nunes was in his truck when the dam collapsed The friendship between Josiana Resende and Natalia de Oliveira is one born out of loss - they got to know each other after the dam collapsed at the ...

Exactly one year ago Saturday, a Brazilian dam operated by iron ore miner Vale gave way to a tsunami of 9.7 million cubic meters of mining sludge that buried part of a town and killed 270 people. In ...

Sao Paulo-- A mining dam collapsed in southeastern Brazil on Friday, inundating a nearby community in an enormous swath of reddish brown liquid waste and leaving an estimated 200 missing, according to ...