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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...