A new report by Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) has found that the mine’s tailings dam is at a very serious and imminent risk of failure due to poor monitoring and internal erosion.

the tailings dam collapse in the town of Brumadinho may be Brazil’s deadliest-ever mine disaster. In recent days, Vale has vowed to keep paying taxes on the paralyzed mine and donate 100,000 ...

The initial assessment also included alleged breaches against the company for releasing toxic water from a tailings dam 14 times in June 2022. Mine tailings are drowned in water to keep them from ...

Ecuador unveiled new, tighter regulations for the design and construction of mining waste dams, seeking to avoid disasters like the tailings dam collapse that killed hundreds at a Vale site in ...

BHP owns 50 per cent of Samarco, the Brazilian company that operates the iron ore mine where the tailings dam ruptured on November 5, 2015. Enough mine waste to fill 13,000 Olympic-size swimming ...

In their report, the researchers revealed that the Panama mine’s tailings dam was at serious risk of failure due to internal erosion. The Cobre Panamá copper mine sits in a biodiverse jungle ...