Under the agreement, Samarco — a joint venture of Brazilian mining giant Vale and Anglo ... “We are fixing a disaster that could have been avoided, but wasn’t,” President Luiz Inácio ...

The collapsed dam at an iron ore mine was managed by Samarco, co-owned by BHP and Brazilian miner Vale. At the time of the disaster, BHP had global headquarters in the UK as well as in Australia.

LONDON (AP) — Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster took their case for compensation to a UK court Monday, almost nine years after tons of toxic mining waste poured into a major ...

The 2015 collapse of the dam at an iron ore mine in Brazil caused an environmental disaster - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP ALEX WONG The 2015 collapse of ...

following the deadly dam burst last week at its jointly owned iron-ore mine in Brazil, even as the company sought to clarify responsibility for the disaster that has already claimed the lives of ...

In January, one such dam operated by miner Vale SA, the world's largest iron ore miner, collapsed, unleashing a wave of mud that likely killed more than 300 people Brazil's government on Monday ...