By Shanna Hanbury 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (Reuters) - Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, knew last year that the dam in Brazil that collapsed in January and killed at least 165 people had a heightened risk of ...