SAO PAULO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - German inspection firm TÜV SÜD said on Tuesday that it will no longer certify tailings dams owned by the world's largest iron ore miner Vale SA, after a dam burst in ...

Brazil has opened a corruption probe into the Vale SA dam collapse that killed at least 180 people in the southeastern part of the country. Alexandre Vidigal de Oliveira, the country's mining ...

Rio de Janeiro -- Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for five people in connection with a dam collapse that killed at least 65 people as it plastered part of a city with reddish-brown ...

Vale SA (VALE) has released an update. Vale SA’s Board of Directors has approved a legal agreement with Brazilian authorities to address the damages caused by the 2015 Fundão dam collapse in Mariana, ...

Massive tailings dams, like this functional one near Antonio Pereira, Brazil, are built by mining companies to hold back the sludge left behind when a mill separates metals from ore. But the dams fail ...