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 ...

BHP (BHP) -3.2% pre-market Friday after the English High Court ruled it is liable for the deadly collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil 10 years ago. More than 600,000 Brazilians, several local ...

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 ...

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 failure of the Fundao tailings dam unleashed a torrent of nearly 40 million cubic meters of highly toxic mine sludge over areas of the Mariana district, also in Minas Gerais. The mud killed 19 ...

(Alliance News) - Mining company BHP can be held "strictly liable" for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil, the High Court has ruled. More than 600,000 Brazilians brought legal action against BHP Group ...

The BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP) share price is under pressure on Monday. Here’s what’s happening with the UK class action suit.

Recent research shows how mining companies in Brazil are artificially inflating risk levels for some dams holding mining waste in an effort to scare residents into moving out of the area. This ...

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 ...

LONDON -- A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil's worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a ...