Injunction Sought to Block Oak Flat Land Trade for Massive Arizona Copper Mine

Injunction Sought to Block Oak Flat Land Trade for Massive Arizona Copper Mine

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.