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Associated Press 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 Mila Besich pushed members of Congress on Tuesday to oppose the bill, saying residents cannot fully realize plans for a community center, economic development and tourism that draws on its mountainous surroundings without the mine and its financial support. “Our strategy has always been that ore body is going to be mined at some point, and we need to be as smart as possible, and we need to actively participate in these very large and complex federal processes,” she recently told the Associated Press. “We are who we are, and mining belongs in this part of the state, whether we like it or not.” ....
For Immediate Release, February 19, 2021 Contact: Maria Dadgar, Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, (602) 258-4822, maria.dadgar@itaa-az.org Roger Featherstone, Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, (520) 777-9500, roger@azminingreform.org Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org Pete Dronkers, Earthworks, (775) 815-9936, pdronkers@earthworksaction.org Curt Shannon, Access Fund, (480) 652-5547, curt@accessfund.org Injunction Sought to Block Oak Flat Land Trade for Massive Arizona Copper Mine PHOENIX Tribal and conservation groups asked a federal judge today to block a land trade that would hand over thousands of acres in the Tonto National Forest in central Arizona to multinational mining company Rio Tinto for the massive Resolution Copper mine. The Oak Flat area, considered sacred by Apache and other Native people, would be destroyed by the mine. ....
For Immediate Release, February 19, 2021 Contact: Maria Dadgar, Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, (602) 258-4822, maria.dadgar@itaa-az.org Roger Featherstone, Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, (520) 777-9500, roger@azminingreform.org Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org Pete Dronkers, Earthworks, (775) 815-9936, pdronkers@earthworksaction.org Curt Shannon, Access Fund, (480) 652-5547, curt@accessfund.org Injunction Sought to Block Oak Flat Land Trade for Massive Arizona Copper Mine PHOENIX Tribal and conservation groups asked a federal judge today to block a land trade that would hand over thousands of acres in the Tonto National Forest in central Arizona to multinational mining company Rio Tinto for the massive Resolution Copper mine. The Oak Flat area, considered sacred by Apache and other Native people, would be destroyed by the ....