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Opponents of a copper mine project that would obliterate an Apache sacred site east of Phoenix asked a federal judge Wednesday to stop work on the project. The group Apache Stronghold filed the first in a series of three lawsuits Jan. 12 to stop Resolution Copper from proceeding with a huge copper mine below Oak Flat, a site deemed sacred to many Apaches and other Southwestern tribes. The suit was filed three days before the Forest Service issued the final environmental impact statement r...

A giant mining company is one step closer to building one of the nation's largest underground copper mines an hour east of Phoenix on land considered sacred to many Apaches.

Phoenix, Arizona, United States – Indigenous and environmental groups in the United States are suing the US Forest Service (USFS) to try to prevent the transfer of more than 9.7 square kilometres (2,400 acres) of land in Arizona to a mining company for potential development. The co-plaintiffs in the case, including the Inter Tribal Association of Arizona and the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club, on January 22 filed a lawsuit against a proposed copper mine about 100km east of Phoenix th...

1 / of 3 Rio Tinto and BHP battle Apache tribes to build North Americas biggest copper mine at sacred Oak Flat site Posted TueTuesday 26 updated TueTuesday 26 JanJanuary 2021 at 11:06pm Apache elder Wendsler Nosie is one of those leading the campaign to save Oak Flat from mining. ( Print text only "This place is very holy and religious to us." Wendsler Nosie Senior, an elder of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, is describing his peoples land, Oak Flat or Chichil Bildagoteel, in the Arizona desert i...

Resolution Copper has been modified and vetted. We just need the opportunity to mine Andrew Lye, opinion contributor As America steps toward a clean energy future – a key plank of the incoming Biden administration’s agenda – a copper deposit in central Arizona could help make that future a reality. Popular Searches Copper is an essential component in smart phones and tablets, medical equipment and wind turbines. For example, one wind turbine alone can use more than t...

Oak Flat: Trump’s Final Middle Finger to the Environment As Trump’s term comes to a dramatic close, the administration’s last minute effort to rush through multiple mining projects that pose a grave environmental risk is lost in the headlines By Raul DIEGO Buried deep in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2015, section 3003 calls for the expeditious facilitation of a land exchange agreement between Resolution Copper Mining, LLC and the United States government...

Posted on 16715 The Resolution Copper project has entered the next phase of public consultation in the ongoing permitting process, led by the US Forest Service, with the release of its independent Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Decisions on whether to invest fully in developing the project, a proposed underground mine located in Arizona and one of the world’s most significant undeveloped copper deposits, remain subject...

The U.S. Forest Service published the final environmental impact statement and draft record of decision Friday on a controversial land swap that would clear the way for a huge copper mine beneath Oak Flat, a site thats sacred to many Apaches and culturally significant to other tribes. The document release starts the clock running on a 60-day timeframe for the final conveyance of more than 2,400 acres of national forest land to Resolution Copper, which will hand over about 5,300 acres of pri...

John McCain’s Apache Land Grab Is Finally Happening The fight for a copper deposit beneath sacred lands shows the extent of the government’s extractive greed. Eric Thayer/Getty Images In 2014, the late Senator John McCain quietly slid a dagger into the backside of the Arizona tribal nations he was ostensibly elected to represent. Deep in an appropriations package for military funding, McCain tacked on a rider, known as Section 3003. The rider accomplished what the Arizona Republican had bee...

The Resolution Copper project has entered the next phase of public consultation in the ongoing permitting process, led by the US Forest Service, with the release of its independent Final Environmental Impact Statement . Decisions on whether to invest fully in developing the project, a proposed underground mine located in Arizona and one of the world’s most significant undeveloped copper deposits, remain subject to ...