Mining Dam Failures Present a Global Danger 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 ...

The presentation was scientific and technical, as experts shared about the potential impacts of a tailings dam failure at the proposed Donlin gold mine, and heartfelt and emotional, as community ...

The collapse last month of a Vale dam ... a tailings dam in Brazil operated by Vale SA late on Saturday, amid fears that it was structurally weak and could burst like a similar barrier failure ...

The Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in Brazil has killed more than 100 people as of Thursday, with hundreds more missing and feared dead. This video shows the moment the disaster began.

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 ...