The collapse last month of a Vale dam in the same area unleashed an avalanche of mud killing an estimated 300 people in Brazil's deadliest mining disaster Around 200 residents were evacuated from ...

Mining giant Vale failed to report problems at a massive tailings dam in Brazil that could have averted its collapse, killing hundreds, a government agency said on Tuesday. The Jan 25 dam breach ...

Yet, within just four months, another community in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais faces being obliterated from the map ... the collapse at a Vale mining dam in Mariana in 2015, Brazil's ...

VALE), BHP (BHP) and their Samarco joint venture in Brazil of responsibility over a 2015 dam collapse that caused the country's worst ever environmental disaster, according to published reports.

Brazil stringer photographer Leo Correa for a compelling story and photos on a mother desperate to find her son after the Vale mining dam collapse killed more than 100, with many still missing. In the ...

Courts have frozen a total of 11bn reais ($2.9bn; £2.2bn) of assets belonging to Vale, Brazil's largest mining company to pay for damage caused by the mudslide following the dam's collapse.