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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...

UpdatedSun, Jan 17, 2021 at 6:34 am MT Reply(1) This June 15, 2015, file photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service released an environmental review Friday that paves the way for the creation of one of the largest copper mines in the United States, against the wishes of a group of Apaches who have been trying for years to stop the project. The Forest S...

Outgoing administration’s last-minute changes to wildlife protections draw criticism Douglas Main © Photograph by Kiliii Yuyan, National Geographic A view of the central Brooks Range, Alaska, near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On January 6, the Trump Administration sold leases to drill for oil in this pristine wilderness area. Over the past four years, wildlife and environmental protections in the United States have been under attack. President Donald Trump’s admini...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday released the final environmental impact statement for a land swap that would allow for copper mining on lands sacred to the Apache tribe in Arizona, as indigenous advocates continue to fight the project.

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...

Critics condemn ‘callous betrayal’ after Trump officials set in motion transfer of Oak Flat in Arizona to Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton

Ernest Scheyder (Adds pictures available) Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration approved a land swap on Friday for a Rio Tinto Ltd copper mine in Arizona that would boost domestic production of the red metal but destroy sites sacred to Native Americans. The U.S. Forest Service published an environmental impact statement for the Resolution Copper project that allows the federal government to swap land containing a large copper deposit for nearby acreage that ...

UPDATE 1-Native Americans say U.S. does not own land it is about to give to Rio Tinto 15 Jan 2021 / 05:27 H. (Adds statement from Rio Tinto) By Ernest Scheyder Jan 14 (Reuters) - Members of Arizonas San Carlos Apache tribe filed a property lien on Thursday in an attempt to regain control over land that the U.S. government is poised to give to Rio Tinto Ltd for the Resolution Copper mine. The latest maneuver by tribal members opposed to the project asks a court to find that the U.S. governmen...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - The U.S. Forest Service released an environmental review Friday that paves the way for the creation of one of the largest copper mines in

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...