SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) Growing up in a mining family that goes back generations, Mayor Mila Besich knew the Oak Flat Campground as the place where she attended union picnics as a girl and in earlier years her parents stood in a clearing to hear the World Series on the radio. Now, Besich is overseeing […]
Oak Flat in central Arizona is the subject of a tug of war between people in the historic mining town of Superior who want a huge copper mine developed there
There s a tug of war between townspeople who support a mine and the economic benefits it promises and Native American groups that consider the land sacred.
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Residents of a town in central Arizona are engaged in a tug of war with Native American groups over a huge copper mine that s been proposed on national forest land.