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Court rules against Apaches in bid to halt proposed mine Follow Us Question of the Day By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press - Friday, February 12, 2021 FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - A federal judge has rejected a request from a group of Apaches to keep the U.S. Forest Service from transferring a parcel of land to a copper mining company. Apache Stronghold made the request as part of a lawsuit it filed against the For...

A federal judge on Friday said he would not stop the US Forest Service from transferring government-owned land in Arizona to Rio Tinto for its Resolution Copper project, denying a request from Native Americans who said the land has religious and cultural import. The judge’s decision is likely to escalate the clash between members of Arizona’s San Carlos Apache Tribe, who consider the land home to deities, and Rio and minority partner BHP Group Plc, who have spent more than $1bn on the proj...

Closing a portal to the Creator: fresh setback for attempt to prevent destruction of US holy land by miner Annette McGivney © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ross D Franklin/AP Efforts to prevent a sacred Native American site from being destroyed by a copper mine received a setback yesterday, when a federal judge rejected Apache tribal members’ request to halt the site’s transfer to a a multi-national mining company. While US district judge Steven Logan acknowledged ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Copper Mine Would Crater Sacred Site, Native Groups Say Law360 (February 11, 2021, 9:42 PM EST) -- Native American rights advocates on Thursday backed a San Carlos Apache nonprofits suit opposing the Resolution Copper mine project, telling an Arizona federal judge that the federal governments planned land swap for the project would lead to the sites destruction and the groups loss of any ability to practice their religion there. The Morning Star Institute, the Multi...

A federal judge on Friday said he would not stop the U.S. Forest Service from transferring government-owned land in Arizona to Rio Tinto Plc for its Resolution…

The Tonto National Forest is moving ahead with a controversial federal land exchange. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports, it would pave the way for one of nation

A U.S. judge on Friday said he would not stop the U.S. Forest Service from transferring government-owned land in Arizona to Rio Tinto Plc for its Resolution Copper project, denying a request from Native Americans who say the land has religious and cultural import.

Apache make emotional appeal to court to halt proposed copper mine Feb. 3, 2021 | Updated: Thursday, Feb. 4, 4:06 p.m. Activists from the Apache Stronghold grassroots organization regroup Tuesday at a downtown Phoenix intersection on their way to a vigil at the federal courthouse. The group is protesting the government’s OK of an environmental review that clears the way for a proposed copper mine in Oak Flat. (Photo by Alberto Mariani/Cronkite News) Ed Mendoza, ...

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...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. —  Apache tribal members made emotional pleas Wednesday in federal court to try to prevent what could become the largest copper mine operation in the U.S. Naelyn Pike and her grandfather, Wendsler Nosie Sr., were representing Apache Stronghold. The nonprofit group recently sued the U.S. Forest Service to keep the agency from turning over a parcel of land to Resolution Copper, a joint venture of global mining companies Rio Tinto and BHP. The group is seeking an injunction un...