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Local activists attended a shareholder s meeting Friday of one of the parent groups of Resolution Copper, the company proposing to make Oak Flat, an Apache religious site near Superior, Arizona, into a copper mine.
Two of the people who virtually attended the Rio Tinto meeting in London were Roger Featherstone and Henry Munoz, the chair of the Concerned Citizens & Retired Miner’s Coalition. Featherstone is the director of the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition. Both of them opposed the mining project at Oak Flat and submitted comments asking when Rio Tinto would abandon the project.
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.