A dam burst at a mine co-owned by Vale and BHP Billiton in southeastern Brazil on Thursday, submerging nearby homes and vehicles. Photo: Record TV ...

On Thursday, state labor courts froze more than 800 million Reais (US$ 219 million) of Vale’s assets as compensation for victims Residents devastated by a mining dam burst in Brazil that may ...

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.

“They knew there were problems and did not make the decisions that could have improved safety.” Mr Sampaio said the operation had no emergency protocol to protect villages downstream from the mine dam ...

Nearly 300 people are still missing and there is little hope they will be found alive Police in Brazil have arrested five people as part of an investigation into Friday's dam collapse in Brumadinho.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at a signing ceremony of a compensation agreement for damages caused by ...

A horse struggles in the mud at the small town of Bento Rodrigues after a dam burst on Thursday in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 6, 2015. Brazilian rescuers searched feverishly Friday ...

In November 2015, a dam owned by Vale and BHP Billiton, burst in Mariana, also in Minas Gerais. It killed 19 people in what was considered Brazil's worst environmental disaster at the time.

Claimants in a trial underway in London’s High Court over BHP’s role in a catastrophic dam collapse in Brazil painted a grim picture of “red flags” that they allege the global miner failed ...

The mud surging from the burst dam also damaged buildings and caused many residents of the town to flee. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently returned to Israel from meeting with ...