For Immediate Release, February 19, 2021 Contact: Maria Dadgar, Inter Tribal Association of Arizona, (602) 258-4822, [email protected] Roger Featherstone, Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, (520) 777-9500, [email protected] Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, (602) 999-5790, [email protected] Pete Dronkers, Earthworks, (775) 815-9936, [email protected] Curt Shannon, Access Fund, (480) 652-5547, [email protected] 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.