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 ...

Mining giant BHP loses bid to appeal over deadly dam collapse that caused country’s worst environmental disaster - The Fundao dam was jointly owned and operated by BHP and Vale's Samarco joint venture ...

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 ...

Vale SA (VALE) has released an update. Vale S.A. has reached a significant settlement with Brazilian authorities to address claims related to the 2015 Samarco dam disaster, involving financial ...

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 ...

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) ...

Vale SA is set to face a fresh legal front over a catastrophic Brazilian dam collapse in 2015 after thousands of victims sued the company in a Dutch court in a claim that could cost the mining giant ...

The owners of a BHP Billiton joint venture where a tailings dam burst, killing 19 people, have reached a $US6.2 billion settlement with the Brazilian government ...

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Brazilian mining company Samarco Mineração SA was sued by creditors in the United States on Monday, accusing it of making false statements about a deadly dam disaster in November ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A court in Brazil decided on Monday to resume criminal proceedings, including consideration of murder charges, related to the 2015 Samarco mine disaster, throwing out a ...

PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Global mining giant BHP Billiton has cut its iron-ore production expectations for the 2016 financial year by 10-million tonnes, to 237-million tonnes, following the ...