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Copper Flat Mine
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The Santa Fe New Mexican has published a timeline tracing the history of the Copper Flat Mine in New Mexico. The feature lays out key dates and developments in the mine's long-running story, which has drawn attention over issues such as permitting, water use and environmental review. Readers are being offered a chronological overview to follow ongoing news about the site.
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A federal appeals court has declined to reconsider its decision allowing the transfer of Oak Flat, a site sacred to Western Apache tribes in Arizona, to a copper mining project. The full Ninth Circuit declined to rehear the case, dealing a setback to Apache Stronghold and environmental groups fighting the land swap with Rio Tinto's Resolution Copper. Opponents say they may take the fight to the Supreme Court.
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Eleven judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have urged the US Supreme Court to take up the Oak Flat case, backing protection for the sacred Apache site in Arizona threatened by a copper mining project. The rare show of judicial support adds pressure on the high court to hear Apache Stronghold's challenge after lower courts refused to block the land transfer.