Feb 19, 2021 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press |
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.
Jan 21, 2021 | Action Alert, Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
Please sign your organization onto a letter urging President Joe Biden to immediately withdraw the recently issued Final Environmental Impact Statement, Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange (EIS 20210005) that will facilitate a land exchange and construction of the Resolution Copper mine, resulting in the destruction of a Native American sacred area, Oak Flat or Chi’chil Bildagoteel.
Jan 15, 2021 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press |
“With Arizona entering its 21st year of a long-term drought and the potential to pollute and deplete the town of Superior’s water supply, how can anyone let this happen, considering it would be a failed mining experiment? The east valley municipalities of Queen Creek, Gilbert, and San Tan area beware, this project would wipe out your water supply. The project itself will consume 40,000 acre feet of water a year which is the same as Tempe, Arizona, which has a population of 180,000 people.”
Jan 11, 2021 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press |
In the wake of Rio TInto’s destruction of sacred rock shelters in the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia in May of 2020, Rio Tinto has made grand pronouncement of how they would never again destory a sacred site anywhere in the world. In light of the caompany’s plan to do exactly that at Oak Flat, what does Rio Tinto’s promises mean?
We’ve written a white paper looking at the similarities between what Rio Tinto did at Juukan Gorge and what they would like to do at Oak Flat.
Nov 30, 2020 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
Please donate to help us protect Arizona from inappropriate mining. We need your financial assistance to help us protect Oak Flat, and other precious places in Arizona under assault by foreign mining companies. 2020 has been a tough year for everyone. This has been...
Mar 8, 2020 | Action Alert, Arizona Mining Oversight |
If you are in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2020, please attend this rally to protect Oak...
Dec 8, 2019 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
The Concerned Citizens & Retired Miners Coalition will be hosting an informational/social gathering at Oak Flat Campground, Saturday, December 14, from 2:00 – ? PM. The event will provide an opportunity to review and share current info, plan for the upcoming...
Nov 8, 2019 | Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining, Press |
On November 7, 2019 the Arizona Mining Reform Coaliiton and 17 additional organizations filed 6,436 pages of comments (including attachments) in repsonse to a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) written by the Tonto National Forest on Resolution Copper’s...
Sep 26, 2019 | Action Alert, Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining
The Tonto National Forest has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) examining Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper mine proposal and is asking for your comments. The deadline for comments is November 7, 2019. Please go to our alert to learn more and to edit...
Sep 13, 2019 | Action Alert, Arizona Mining Oversight, Oak Flat Mining |
New Reports reveal serious problems with Proposed Resolution Copper mine proposal and US Forest Service DEIS The Arizona Mining Reform Coalition has released three new reports showing that Resolution Copper’s proposal to mine copper and the US Forest Service’s Draft...
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...
