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Arizona mining fight pits economy, EVs against conservation, culture Reuters | Apr 19, 2021 10:41 PM EDT Darrin and Paula Lewis of Superior Lumber & Hardware are seen outside the store in Superior, Arizona, (Photo : REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara) Early last year, Darrin Lewis paid $800,000 for a hardware store in a tiny Arizona town where mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hopes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines. Rio buys materials from Lewis's Superior Hardware & Lumber for its Resolution mine site, accounting for a third of the store's sales and helping to keep it afloat during ...

By Syndicated Content By Ernest Scheyder SUPERIOR, Ariz. (Reuters) - Early last year, Darrin Lewis paid $800,000 for a hardware store in a tiny Arizona town where mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hopes to build one of the world's largest underground copper mines. Rio buys materials from Lewis's Superior Hardware & Lumber for its Resolution mine site, accounting for a third of the store's sales and helping to keep it afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. But U.S. President Joe Biden put the mining project on hold last month in response to the concerns of Native Americans who say it wil...

Lawmakers discuss bill trying to save Oak Flat Arizona mayor pushed members of Congress to oppose the bill, saying residents cannot fully realize plans without the mine and its financial support Author: Apr 13, 2021 This 2015 photo shows in the distance, part of the Resolution Copper Mining land-swap project in Superior, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) Arizona mayor pushed members of Congress to oppose the bill, saying residents cannot fully realize plans without the mine and its financial support The mayor of a small community in Arizona's copper corridor likes to think of Superio...

© Getty Images Congress now has the opportunity to correct a travesty that occurred in 2014 when a last-minute, nongermane provision was inserted, without debate, into the annual National Defense Authorization Act that threatens to destroy a Native American religious site in Arizona by passing the Save Oak Flat Act. The current legislation, introduced by House Natural Resources Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) would repeal Section 3003 of the NDAA for fiscal year 2015 that authorized the Southeastern Arizona Land Exchange between foreign-owned Resolution Copper Company and the Tonto National...

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