Anglo-Australian Miner BHP Faces $6.3B Lawsuit in UK over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster July 15, 2020 By Kirstin Ridley More than 200,000 Brazilian people and groups will next week kick off a 5 billion-pound ($6.3 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian...
Global Mining Firms Reveal Safety Plans for Tailings Dams After Deadly Brazil Disasters June 10, 2019 By Shriya Ramakrishnan and Sangameswaran S. Global miners BHP Group, Anglo American Plc and Glencore Plc revealed details on tailings dams, months after ethical investors sought...
Brazil’s Vale to Invest $2.5B in Technology to Prevent Mining Dam Disasters: Reuters May 10, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazil’s Vale said on Thursday that it plans to invest $2.5 billion over the next five years in technology that...
Mining Giant BHP Faces $5B Damages Claim over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster May 8, 2019 By Kirstin Ridley and Barbara Lewis Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP is facing a landmark, $5.0 billion damages claim in England for being “woefully negligent” in the...
Australia Mining Firms Report Some Impact from Cyclones as Clean Up Begins March 25, 2019 By Melanie Burton Mining giants Rio Tinto, BHP Group and Fortescue Metals said their Australian operations had suffered some impact after two cyclones...
Brazil’s Burst Dam Disasters Blamed on Cheap Storage of Mining Waste February 1, 2019 By Laura Millan The deadly collapse of a Vale SA tailings dam in Brazil is serving as a wake-up call for an industry...
Brazil Dam Disaster Could Delay Settlement for 2015’s Samarco Mine Disaster January 30, 2019 Brazil’s deadly tailings dam collapse is likely to complicate a settlement for a similar disaster less than four years ago...
Brazil Weighs Management Overhaul at Vale After Mine Disaster; Death Toll Rises January 29, 2019 By Gram Slattery Brazil’s government weighed pushing for a management overhaul at iron ore miner Vale SA on Monday as grief over the...
Collapsed Brazil Mining Dam Kills at Least 58, in Echoes of 2015 Disaster January 28, 2019 By Gram Slattery Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a...
Australia Court Narrows Class-Action Suits Against BHP over Brazil Mine Disaster December 19, 2018 The Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday ordered that the number of class-action lawsuits against BHP Group over a Brazilian...