A U.K. judge has found that the Australian multinational mining company BHP is liable for a 2015 dam collapse in southeastern Brazil. The incident killed 19 people and unleashed at least 40 million ...

The ruling exposes BHP, headquartered in the UK but listed in London and Sydney, to a claim valued at £36 billion (CA$66.4 billion), brought by more than 600,000 Brazilian claimants—including ...

Australia’s largest miner, BHP, has been found liable to compensate victims devastated by the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil in 2015 that killed 19 people, spewed millions of tonnes of waste ...

The High Court in London has ruled that BHP Group is legally liable for the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Brazil in 2015 ...

Mining giant BHP could have to pay out billions of dollars in compensation after a UK court found it was liable for the ...

Miners Vale (NYSE:VALE) and BHP (BHP) are moving closer to finalizing a deal with Brazilian authorities to provide a settlement worth ~$30B, with an agreement set to be signed on October 25, according ...

Samarco Mineração, along with parent companies Vale (NYSE:VALE) and BHP (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP), has confirmed ongoing settlement negotiations with Brazilian authorities over the Fundão dam ...

BHP (NYSE:BHP) and Vale (NYSE:VALE) made a ~$1.4B offer to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.K. brought by hundreds of thousands of victims of the 2015 Mariana tailings dam rupture, one of Brazil ...

The collapse of a massive tailings dam in Brazil was caused by the accumulation of water and lack of drainage, although the facilities did not previously show signs of instability, according to a ...

A British court has ruled mining giant BHP liable for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil a decade ago, which sparked one of the world's largest environmental disasters on record.

LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is facing a landmark, $5 billion (3.8 billion pounds) damages claim in England for being "woefully negligent" in the run-up to a 2015 dam failure ...