Court victory on Rosemont mine!

Court victory on Rosemont mine!

Victory for the Santa Rita Mountains! This morning, the 9th circuit court upheld Judge Soto’s ruling that the US Forest Service was wrong in approving the Rosemont mine. “Today’s ruling affirmed both natural and US law,” said Roger Featherstone, director of the...
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.