An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as ...

Tailings dams are critical components of mining operations, serving as storage facilities for the waste materials left over after the extraction of valuable minerals. However, the management of ...

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 environmental disaster to date.

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.

Eight years since the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, researchers have highlighted ...

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

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

After the 2019 Brumadinho disaster, Brazilian prosecutors charged ... Vale said it would decommission all 10 remaining "tailings" dams, which are often made from earth and used to store the ...

Mining giant Vale failed to report problems at a massive tailings dam in Brazil ... seven months before the disaster. On Jan 10 - two weeks before the dam ruptured - two devices measuring liquid ...

When the tailings dam collapsed it unleashed a torrent of waste that killed as many as 19 people and contaminated waterways in Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo. Fallout from the disaster has hung ...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended the signing of the deal over the November 5, 2015 collapse of a tailings ... disaster), but it has deficiencies," the Movement of People Affected by ...