The collapse last month of a Vale dam in the same ... 300 people in Brazil's deadliest mining disaster Around 200 residents were evacuated from an area near a tailings dam in Brazil operated ...

Minas Gerais is still recovering from the collapse in November 2015 of a larger dam that killed 19 people in Brazil's worst environmental ... released by the dam failure. Helicopters plucked ...

A statement released by BHP said: “The Fundao dam failure was a tragedy ... village of Bento Rodrigues in south-eastern ...

The Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in Brazil has killed more than 100 people as of Thursday, with hundreds more missing and feared dead. This video shows the moment the disaster began.

Only four years earlier, a tailings-dam collapse at the Samarco mine in Brazil, co-owned by Vale and BHP Group Ltd., killed 19 and caused what analysts described as that country’s worst ...

Mining Dam Failures Present a Global Danger Massive tailings dams, like this functional one near Antonio Pereira, Brazil, are built by mining companies to hold back the sludge left behind when a ...

Senior Brazilian politicians have called for Vale SA to be held to account for last week's dam disaster, as anger grows towards the mining firm ... dams used for water, tailings dams - like ...

More than 620,000 individuals are seeking £36 billion in compensation for damages caused by a deluge of deadly sludge that poured through towns when a tailings dam burst.

In January 2000, a disaster like this happened at the Baia Mare Tailings Dam in Romania. A tailings dam is a type of embankment dam, designed to contain mining waste. Melting snow and pounding ...