Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mining is essential to modern lifestyles. Copper, iron and other mined products are vital to the products many people take for ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Despite two major deadly mining disasters since 2015, Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA has not complied with a number of commitments signed with authorities to ...

Lax regulations, chronic short staffing and a law that muffled the voices of environmentalists on mining licenses made the devastating collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil all but destined to ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The deadly collapse of a Vale SA's mining waste dam in Brazil was partially triggered by "a persistently high water level" that caused the structure to lose strength and ...

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 ...

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 standard contains 15 principles and 77 specific, auditable requirements for operators to adhere to. Its aims include to "lift the performance bar for designing, constructing, operating, ...

Chile has found another use for dams that hold the liquid waste from massive copper mining operations: power generation. Calling it the first project of its kind in the world, Anglo American has ...

Mining is essential to modern lifestyles. Copper, iron and other mined products are vital to the products many people take for granted, like electronic devices. Being able to buy these goods quite ...