BHP Group said it was waiting to formally receive the court ruling on the 2015 Fundão tailings dam collapse in Brazil after ...

In January 2000, a disaster like this happened at the Baia Mare Tailings Dam in Romania. A tailings dam is a type of embankment dam, designed to contain mining waste. Melting snow and pounding ...

You've decided that the electric power this dam provides does not justify the number of fish it kills. You're not alone. In 1999, the Edwards Dam in Maine was knocked down against the owner's will.

The BHP Group, as with other mining giants, has much explaining to do in the way it has approached the environment.  It has ...

In the wake of the collapse, Vale said it would decommission all 10 remaining "tailings" dams, which are often made from earth and used to store the often toxic mining by-products. It also ...

Picture supplied MMG The Bobadil TSF was expected to reach capacity in 2024 and the company is awaiting a Federal decision on preliminary feasibility works for a controversial tailings dam ...

Six months after the red mud tragedy in Hungary, tailings dams in Central and Eastern Europe continue to be a major cause for concern in the region. We visit Medet, the largest tailings dam in the ...

Another dam, also used to store the muddy mining detritus known as tailings and co-owned by Vale and BHP Group, had collapsed in 2015, killing 19 people and wreaking massive environmental damage.

Six months after being deluged by a tide of toxic red sludge, towns downstream of the failed alumina tailings dam near Ajka, Hungary remain ruined and largely deserted, with residents and former ...