A B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed an attempt by the owners of the Mount Polley mine and its engineering consultants to ...

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

Brazilian federal prosecutors announced homicide charges Thursday against 21 people, including senior mining executives, allegedly responsible for the deadly collapse of the Samarco iron-ore mine dam ...

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 ...

B.C. judge rejects mining firms' bid to limit a 15-count indictment to two, comparing the 2014 tailings spill to a bomb ...

Mining giant BHP has lost its bid to appeal a High Court ruling that could hold it responsible for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil. This decision paves the way for a landmark trial in London, set to ...

Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is a major global environmental and public health concern, particularly in mining areas. Following the collapse of the tailings dam at Sino Metals Leach Limited Mine in Zambia ...

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 ...

In 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an embankment built to store byproducts of iron mining, collapsed in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collapse caused what many call the "worst environmental disaster" in ...

A massive dam and hydro-electric power plant in a Russian-occupied region of Ukraine suffered a major collapse on Tuesday, ...

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 ...