Sep 3, 2019 | Action Alert, Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
The US Forest Service will host 6 public meetings starting September 10 in Superior, AZ, on Rio Tinto’s proposal to destroy Oak Flat and thousands of additional acres of public land. The Forest Service has added (as of September 20) another meeting in Tempe, AZ...
Aug 17, 2019 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press
Bloomberg Reports: July 14, 2019 David Stringer reports that Rio Tinto has discovered a large copper/silver/gold deposit in western Australia. Apparantly Rio Tinto thinks the deposit is so promising that it may leapfrog ahead of Rio Tinto’s proposed Resolution...
Aug 17, 2019 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press |
Elizabeth Whitman writes in the Phoenix New Times that the Tonto National Forest has released a Draft Environemntal Impact Statement (DEIS) for Resolution Copper’s proposal to destroy Oak Flat and thousands of additional acres of public land by building a huge...
Aug 5, 2019 | Action Alert, Arizona Mining Oversight |
High above the town of Superior a hour east of Phoenix, Arizona, lies Oak Flat. Oak Flat campground was protected from mining by President Eisenhower in 1955 and is a rare desert riparian area with large oak trees, cool shade, year around water in pools and springs. ...
Jul 31, 2019 | Arizona Mining Oversight |
July 31, 2019 BREAKING NEWS Today US District Court Judge James Soto issued an order granting summary judgement in two cases brought by conservation organizations and Tribal governments against the proposed Rosemont open pit copper mine south of Tucson, Arizona in the...
Jan 18, 2019 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
The Save Oak Flat Act was introduced today in the US House (HR 665), and Senate (S 173). These bills would repeal the Oak Flat Land Exchange, which would give Oak Flat to huge international mining companies to build a large environmentally destructive copper mine....
Nov 18, 2018 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press |
An article in the November 1, 2018, Phoenix New Times, uncovers yet another in a long series of dirty tricks played by Rio Tinto in their quest to strongarm government officials and other decisionmakers into supporting their plans to destroy Oak Flat and another 7,000...
Nov 2, 2018 | Arizona Mining Oversight |
On October 16, 2018, Administrative Law Judge Thomas Shedden, ruled that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) had violated Arizona state law in renewing a permit allowing Resolution Copper to dump polluted mine water into Queen Creek. The...
Oct 16, 2018 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
A new report prepared for the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition by Dr. Steven Emerman shows serious flaws and deficiencies in the technical design of Rio Tinto’s proposed Resolution Copper mine. The proposed mine, which would destroy Oak Flat and more than 5,000...
