Page 24 - Oak Flat News Today

Native law experts convened by the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center examine the controversies over Thacker Pass and Oak Flat, sites important to the Paiute and Apache, respectively, that would be destroyed by proposed mines.

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The federal government put a pause on the building of the planned Resolution Copper mine, the latest in a decade-long series of delays.

The Biden administration has put a hold on a proposed copper mine that would be built on a sacred site for the San Carlos Apache in Arizona.

Native law experts convened by the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center examine the controversies over Thacker Pass and Oak Flat, sites important to the Paiute and Apache, respectively, that would be destroyed by proposed mines.

The US Forest Service says it no longer has a timeline for a report into a land swap for a Rio Tinto copper mine.

The U.S. Forest Service has told a federal court it is not sure when it will move ahead with the review process.

Native law experts convened by the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center examine the controversies over Thacker Pass and Oak Flat, sites important to the Paiute and Apache, respectively, that would be destroyed by proposed mines.

Native law experts convened by the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center examine the controversies over Thacker Pass and Oak Flat, sites important to the Paiute and Apache, respectively, that would be destroyed by proposed mines.

The US Forest Service has told a federal court it is not sure when it could approve a land swap allowing Rio Tinto to develop the Resolution Copper mine in Arizona, a surprising reversal that boosts several Native American groups opposed to the project. The complex case involves a long-running conflict between a mining company hoping to supply more than a quarter of US copper demand for the green energy transition and Indigenous groups seeking to pres...