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However, Native American groups consider the land sacred and are fighting to protect it from disturbance.

Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine thats been proposed on national forest land. Those who support the mine at Oak …

Residents of a small Arizona town are grappling with history colliding with industry in their backyard. Native American groups and a mining company are engaged in a tug-of-war over a proposed copper mine on national forest land.

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SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in a mining family that goes back generations, Mayor Mila Besich knew the Oak Flat Campground as the place where she attended union picnics as a girl and in earlier years her parents stood in a clearing to hear the World Series on the radio. Now, Besich is overseeing […]

Oak Flat in central Arizona is the subject of a tug of war between people in the historic mining town of Superior who want a huge copper mine developed there

Theres a tug of war between townspeople who support a mine and the economic benefits it promises and Native American groups that consider the land sacred.

Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine thats been proposed on national forest land.

Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine that's been proposed on national forest land

Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine thats been proposed on national forest land.