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Central Avenue businesses say the work is having dire effects.
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Central Avenue businesses say the work is having dire effects.
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.
The Flat Fire is hosting an in-person Community Meeting in Agness on Friday, August 4 at the Agness Community Library Day Park. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m.
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The Flat Fire is now 29,387 acres and is 28% contained.