An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by Vale ...

A new international mining sector standard, compiled by some of the industry’s most powerful players, is the latest example ...

A 2022 satellite photo shows a shimmering trail of dried, chemically-enriched mud left behind by a torrent of wastewater that ...

An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by ...

Those dams, which hold mining byproducts ... which comes less than four years after a similar deadly collapse at another upstream dam co-owned by Vale and BHP Group. While Vale has said it ...

More than 620,000 individuals are seeking £36 billion in compensation for damages caused by a deluge of deadly sludge that ...

The collapse of the dam at the iron ore mine, near the city of Mariana in south-eastern Brazil, unleashed a wave of tailings ...

Chinese firms have secured at least three major contracts in gold and copper mining. Every dollar they don’t spend in ...

Brazilian miner Vale’s CEO held his first official meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday, the company ...

A bulldozer pushes mine cars toward the river in an attempt to dam the breach at the Knox Mine. (LUKASIK STUDIO ARCHIVES) Deacon Francis Bradigan anoints the Knox Mine Disaster memorial during a ...

The death toll in a coal mine collapse due to a methane gas accumulation and explosion has left 11 workers dead after rescuers recovered seven more dead bodies, an official said. Twelve workers ...