Rio Tinto’s proposed copper mine in Arizona has become the cause célèbre in a global trend of activism that threatens to derail the solution to climate change.
Apr 21, 2021
SUPERIOR, Arizona – Early last year, Darrin Lewis paid $800,000 for a hardware store in a tiny Arizona town where mining giant Rio Tinto PLC hopes to build one of the world’s largest underground copper mines.
Rio buys materials from Lewis’s Superior Hardware & Lumber for its Resolution mine site, accounting for a third of the store’s sales and helping to keep it afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
But U.S. President Joe Biden put the mining project on hold last month in response to the concerns of Native Americans who say it will destroy sacred land and of environmentalists who worry it will gobble up water in a drought-stricken state.
Arizona mining fight pits economy, EVs against conservation, culture
Reuters | Apr 19, 2021 10:41 PM EDT
Darrin and Paula Lewis of Superior Lumber & Hardware are seen outside the store in Superior, Arizona, (Photo : REUTERS/Caitlin O Hara)
Early last year, Darrin Lewis paid $800,000 for a hardware store in a tiny Arizona town where mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hopes to build one of the world s largest underground copper mines.
Rio buys materials from Lewis s Superior Hardware & Lumber for its Resolution mine site, accounting for a third of the store s sales and helping to keep it afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
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By Ernest Scheyder
SUPERIOR, Ariz. (Reuters) - Early last year, Darrin Lewis paid $800,000 for a hardware store in a tiny Arizona town where mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hopes to build one of the world s largest underground copper mines.
Rio buys materials from Lewis s Superior Hardware & Lumber for its Resolution mine site, accounting for a third of the store s sales and helping to keep it afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.
But U.S. President Joe Biden put the mining project on hold last month in response to the concerns of Native Americans who say it will destroy sacred land and of environmentalists who worry it will gobble up water in a drought-stricken state.
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