The miner is planning to move 80 per cent of its production to dry processing - the Brazilian dams that collapsed held millions of cubic metres of wet tailings.
We want an immediate scapegoat for tailings dam disasters;but researchers say we could be ignoring the underlying reasons that the numbers have doubled.
An earthquake has triggered a landslide that hit a popular waterfall on the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok.
The death toll continues to rise as firefighters search for survivors in the wake of another massive dam collapse in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Bones,including those of children,have been washing up along the beach since,with locals and the wider public having gathered several sacks to date.
The landslide plunged down surrounding hills just before sunset on Monday in Sirnaresmi village in West Java's Sukabumi district.
Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra,killing at least 27 people,including a dozen children at a school,officials said on Saturday.
A massive landslide buried dozens of homes near a central Philippine mountain Thursday,killing dozens.