The class-action lawsuit in London's High Court demands an estimated $47 billion in compensation from mining giant BHP. BHP owns 50 percent of Samarco, the Brazilian company that operates an iron ore ...

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Brazil is looking to attract mining companies to help revive the country’s uranium exploration and production efforts as the world signals renewed appetite for nuclear power. Latin America’s ...

The Brazilian government signed a compensation deal with BHP and Vale over the 2015 disaster, which caused multiple deaths and huge environmental damage. The cave-in, at an iron ore mine in the ...

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

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that the government said was the country’s ...