Supreme Court rejects lawsuit to save Arizona's Oak Flat from mining

The U.S. Supreme Court denied a review of Apache Stronghold’s case aimed at blocking the U.S. government’s transfer of Oak Flat to a copper mining company, whose mine will transform the sacred site into a massive crater. The decision comes after Apache Stronghold initially asked the U.S. District Court in Phoenix on May 7 to temporarily block the Trump administration from pushing ahead with the land swap that would hand over Oak Flat to Resolution Copper…



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