Samarco Mineração, along with parent companies Vale (NYSE:VALE) and BHP (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP), has confirmed ongoing settlement negotiations with Brazilian authorities over the Fundão dam ...

A judge has suspended homicide cases against 22 people in the Samarco mine disaster that killed 19 and devastated a river valley in southeastern Brazil in 2015. The decision signed July 4 but only ...

Brazillian mining company Vale (NYSE:VALE) has estimated the fines and compensation costs related to the 2015 Samarco dam collapse at $30 billion. The settlement under discussion would cover past and ...

BHP Group Ltd (AU:BHP) has released an update. BHP Group Ltd has reached a final settlement with Brazilian authorities over the 2015 Samarco dam disaster, committing R$170 billion (US$31.7 billion) ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday ordered that the number of class-action lawsuits against BHP Group over a Brazilian mine collapse be narrowed to one from three. BHP is ...

Read full article: $5 million in matching grants available to Virginia Dam Owners SAO PAULO – Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies ...

LONDON (AP) — A lawyer argued Thursday that global mining giant BHP Group should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse poured tons of toxic mining ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's cut Brazilian miner Samarco Mineracao SA's debt rating further into speculative territory on Monday as the deadly dam disaster compromises the finances of the ...

MELBOURNE, Oct 27 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton said on Thursday its chief commercial officer, Dean Dalla Valle, who has led the company's response to the Samarco dam disaster in Brazil, will leave the ...

Vale SA (VALE) has released an update. Vale S.A. is set to finalize a definitive settlement for the full reparation of the Samarco Fundão dam collapse, a significant step in addressing the aftermath ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The "socio-environmental" damage brought about by the 2015 rupture of a tailings dam in Brazil owned by miner Samarco is between 37.6 billion reais ($6.73 billion) ...

Read full article: Mayor Deegan set to present Jacksonville budget to city council Local fire crews worked to put out a boat fire in the area of Julington Creek and the St. Johns River on Sunday ...