Nearly 2,500 acres of public lands in Arizona has been handed over to
two foreign mining companies that plan to excavate $130 billion in
copper from an area considered sacred to Native Americans.
Oak Flat, part of the Tonto National Forest about 100 miles north of Tucson, is the site where Resolution Copper Mining, a British-Australian partnership, intends to develop an enormous copper mine.
Resolution got permission to create the mine after Arizona’s two
Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, slipped a provision
into the Defense Reauthorization Act. McCain says the deal with
Resolution is good for his state, claiming the mine will generate 1,400
jobs and billions of dollars for the state economy. But in the process,
Resolution will be removing an estimated $130 billion worth of copper
that’s now owned by the American people.
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