Stay updated with breaking news from Resolution Copper. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
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
