Chance of finding survivors ‘minimal’ after tailings dam at iron ore mine bursts Ten bodies have been found and more than 400 people are unaccounted for after a dam operated by the mining firm Vale ...

Free State authorities have confirmed that at least three people have been killed following a mine dam collapse in ...

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 ...

Brazilian authorities arrested eight employees of mining giant Vale on Friday over a dam collapse at one of its mines three weeks ago that killed at least 166 people and left 147 missing, presumed ...

The disaster occurred in the diamond mining town of Jagersfontein, forcing officials to evacuate scores of residents to ...

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed an attempt by the owners of the Mount Polley mine and its engineering consultants to cut the number of federal charges it faces over the catastrophic collapse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found that bananas, cassava, and cocoa grown near the 2015 Fundão dam collapse site contain elevated levels of toxic ...

At least 26 people are known to have died in the disaster which occurred earlier this month in Guangxi The Chinese government has appealed to the public for clues as part of its investigation into a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Faced with public outrage after its second mining dam collapse in four years killed at least 240 people in Brazil, Vale SA misrepresented what it had done ...