For Immediate Release,
February 19, 2021
Contact:
Maria Dadgar, Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, (602) 258-4822, maria.dadgar@itaa-az.org
Roger Featherstone, Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, (520) 777-9500, roger@azminingreform.org
Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org
Pete Dronkers, Earthworks, (775) 815-9936, pdronkers@earthworksaction.org
Curt Shannon, Access Fund, (480) 652-5547, curt@accessfund.org
Injunction Sought to Block Oak Flat Land Trade for Massive Arizona Copper Mine
PHOENIX— 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.