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Lawmakers discuss bill trying to save Oak Flat Arizona mayor pushed members of Congress to oppose the bill, saying residents cannot fully realize plans without the mine and its financial support Author: Apr 13, 2021 This 2015 photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) Arizona mayor pushed members of Congress to oppose the bill, saying residents cannot fully realize plans without the mine and its fin...

Arizona PBS April 13, 2021 Planning on the Resolution Copper mine near Superior has been going on for years, as have protests like the one at this encampment in 2016. Opponents say the mine will destroy Oak Flat, an area sacred to the San Carlos Apache, and cause environmental harm. Supporters say the mine will produce jobs and much-needed copper. (File photo by Bri Cossavella/Cronkite News) WASHINGTON – The mayor of Superior told a House panel Tuesday that a bill canceling a massive copper m...

Tribes from across the U.S. testify in support of Save the Oak Flat Act Act would halt massive foreign-owned mining project that will destroy sacred sites and the environment Author: News Release San Carlos Apache Tribe San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman Terry Rambler said he strongly supports Congressional testimony provided today by tribal leaders to protect the sacred western Apache site Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat, from destruction by the proposed Resolution Copper Mine...

Superior mayor, tribal officials spar over bill to stop Oak Flat mine Planning on the Resolution Copper mine near Superior has been going on for years, as have protests like the one at this encampment in 2016. Opponents say the mine will destroy Oak Flat, an area sacred to the San Carlos Apache, and cause environmental harm. Supporters say the mine will produce jobs and much-needed copper. (Source: Cronkite News) By Sarah Oven | April 14, 2021 at 11:31 AM MST - Updated April 15 at 6:07 AM ...

Courtesy of Russ McSpadden/Center for Biological Diversity Local activists attended a shareholders meeting Friday of one of the parent groups of Resolution Copper, the company proposing to make Oak Flat, an Apache religious site near Superior, Arizona, into a copper mine. Two of the people who virtually attended the Rio Tinto meeting in London were Roger Featherstone and Henry Munoz, the chair of the Concerned Citizens & Retired Miner’s Coalition. Featherstone is the director of the Arizona ...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The mayor of a small community in Arizona’s copper corridor likes to think of Superior as a town with a mine, not a mining town. Neither can be a reality if Congress passes a bill to rescind a land exchange for what would be one of the largest copper mining operations in the U.S. Superior Mayor Mil...

© Getty Images Congress now has the opportunity to correct a travesty that occurred in 2014 when a last-minute, nongermane provision was inserted, without debate, into the annual National Defense Authorization Act that threatens to destroy a Native American religious site in Arizona by passing the Save Oak Flat Act. The current legislation, introduced by House Natural Resources Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) would repeal Section 3003 of the NDAA for fiscal year 2015 that authorized the South...

By DANA HEDGPETH | The Washington Post | Published: April 12, 2021 OAK FLAT, Ariz. — Just as his Apache ancestors have done for centuries, Wendsler Nosie — the former chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe — led a traditional ceremony on a mountaintop at Oak Flat, about 60 miles east of Phoenix, overlooking a landscape of basins covered in tall grasses, boulders and jagged cliffs. The tradition, called a sunrise ceremony, is a rite of passage for a teenage girl in which she goes throug...

Native Americans desperately want to protect Oak Flat, a sacred site near Phoenix, from a mining operation. On Tuesday, a House Natural Resources subcommittee will hold a hearing on the future of the land, which sits on one of the largest untapped copper deposits in North America.

A golden age for copper Until recently, the copper market has been flat. Prices have been low, and it has not been a good environment for producers. The market is now on the move. The demand for copper and other energy transition minerals has sparked predictions of a commodity boom, and a golden age for mineral exploration. On April 12-13, major producers including BHP, Rio Tinto and Anglo American will convene for the World Copper Virtual Conference to gather market intelligence. But in t...