The province has granted Imperial Metals permission to increase the height of the tailings dam at its Mount Polley copper and ...

VICTORIA — Ministers in British Columbia have approved plans to increase the height of the tailings storage facility at the ...

The disaster occurred in the diamond mining town of Jagersfontein, forcing officials to evacuate scores of residents to ...

Brazilian federal prosecutors announced homicide charges Thursday against 21 people, including senior mining executives, allegedly responsible for the deadly collapse of the Samarco iron-ore mine dam ...

The collapse of a massive tailings dam in Brazil was caused by the accumulation of water and lack of drainage, although the facilities did not previously show signs of instability, according to a ...

Graham Dawson, 62, was killed in a roof collapse on a central Queensland mining site in 2021. The District Court in Brisbane heard Mastermyne Crinum Operations was criminally negl ...

Researchers found that mining waste from the 2015 Mariana dam disaster persists in soil and water, entering local crops — indicating ongoing contamination. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...

In 2015, the Fundão tailings dam, an embankment built to store byproducts of iron mining, collapsed in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The collapse caused what many call the "worst environmental disaster" in ...