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Residents of a small Arizona town are grappling with history colliding with industry in their backyard. Native American groups and a mining company are engaged in a tug-of-war over a proposed copper mine on national forest land.
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SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in a mining family that goes back generations, Mayor Mila Besich knew the Oak Flat Campground as the place where she attended union picnics as a girl and in earlier years her parents stood in a clearing to hear the World Series on the radio. Now, Besich is overseeing […]
Oak Flat in central Arizona is the subject of a tug of war between people in the historic mining town of Superior who want a huge copper mine developed there
There's a tug of war between townspeople who support a mine and the economic benefits it promises and Native American groups that consider the land sacred.