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Rio Tinto: Resolution Copper project enters next phase of public consultation 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 to further permitting processes and a feasibility study that will be conducted over several years. Re...

Comments Buried deep in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2015, section 3003 calls for the expeditious facilitation of a land exchange agreement between Resolution Copper Mining, LLC and the United States government to create one of the largest and deepest copper mines in the country, spanning nearly 11,000 square miles of national forest terrain and penetrating 7,000 miles into beneath the surface of the earth. The land swap specifically targets approximately 2,500 acres that are not already owned by the mining concern and which rest inside Apa...

Defend Chich’il Bildagoteel! Apache clans and over 300 Indigenous nations are organizing to protect Chich’il Bildagoteel, the Oak Flat site in southeastern Arizona, from devastating copper mining extraction.  Apache clan members and supporters rally to defend Chich’il Bildagoteel (Oak Flat) in December 2019. Credit: Sandra Rambler/Censored News The mining was given a federal go-ahead by passage of the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and “Conservation” Act, included in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Barack Obama. Subject to “environmental review,�...

Did feds fast-track Resolution Copper mine project in Trump's last days? Foes say 'yes' Debra Utacia Krol, Arizona Republic © Mark Henle, Mark Henle/The Republic Resolution Copper Mining The U.S. Forest Service has moved the date to complete its review of the Resolution Copper mine east of Superior to the end of 2020, pushing the fiercely debated project into the fast lane before President Donald Trump leaves office. © File / The Republic The Tetons boulders at Oak Flats at night in near Superior on Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Tonto National Forest, where the mine would be l...

Iran. so surprise! that's in the defense bill. taking apache leap and all that land away from the indians so it can become a giant copper mine instead. just what we need. there's, actually, sort of a lot of public outcry over that as people start to learn that secret. there's a petition at the white house website with 60,000 signatures on it urging this stripping out of the defense bill before it moves forward. so that's one little example of congress trying to hide controversial stuff deep in unrelated legislation. this happens every year and both parties do it. but this year, with everybody'...