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A small Arizona town that once had a thriving mining industry could soon be near the center of a mining project that some say has the potential to pump an estimated $1 billion into the Arizona economy over decades. However, the project is facing some stiff opposition over environmental and religious worries.

This is the Oak Flat campground — a sacred site for thousands of Native Americans and home to what the Rio Tinto mining company claims is one of the largest undeveloped copper-ore deposits in the world, capable of producing 40 billion pounds of copper over the next 40 years. The block-cave method proposed by Resolution Copper, the British-Australian mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP that has rights to the land, would destroy Oak Flat.

Last spring, North Dakota eagerly welcomed the building of a $432 million metallic minerals processing plant for a proposed nickel-copper mine in Minnesota which will add to the state’s brownfield

With a groundwater crisis rapidly unfolding in the Phoenix metropolitan region, the Biden administration may be on the verge of approving a massive copper mining project in central Arizona that

By Pete Jones

A legal loophole in the state's water laws may allow huge amounts of limited groundwater for a destructive copper mining project on the sacred Oak Flat site.

A legal loophole in the state's water laws may allow huge amounts of limited groundwater for a destructive copper mining project on the sacred Oak Flat site.

A stunning loophole in Arizona’s water laws has left the state powerless to address a groundwater crisis rapidly unfolding in the Phoenix metropolitan region.

Opinion. A stunning loophole in Arizona’s water laws has left the state powerless to address a groundwater crisis rapidly unfolding in the Phoenix metropolitan region.

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