Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was no coincidence that the two main rivals in Brazil’s last presidential election, Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian miner Vale said on Thursday it will invest 67 billion reais ($12.36 billion) in its mining operations in Minas Gerais state by 2030, as it held a ceremony to mark the ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

A Brazilian court has ordered mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) to halt operations at its Brucutu iron ore mine, the largest in Minas Gerais state, following last month’s tailings dam disaster at ...

Brazil’s federal prosecutors have asked the country’s mining regulator to suspend lithium projects in Minas Gerais, citing inadequate consultation with local communities and environmental risks. The ...

Anyone viewing the mountainous landscape of the Brazilian Southeast would never suspect that this region was the site of a long chain of high, active volcanoes some 600 million years ago. During that ...

At least 10 people have died after landslides swept through two cities in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, state officials have said. The Bethania neighbourhood in the city of Ipatinga was the ...

A crash between a passenger bus and a truck early Saturday killed 38 people on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, officials said. The Minas Gerais fire department, which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sprawling, cavernous mines pockmark the landscape as you come in to land at Belo Horizonte’s main airport, ...

On December 8, 2025, in Minas Gerais, Brazil, @Joaogabriel.rv shared a video showing a daily farm routine taking an ...