The U.S. Forest Service is expected to release the final review of a plan that would open sacred Apache lands to copper ...

The release of the Final Environmental Impact Statement marks one of the final steps toward transferring Oak Flat to ...

While opponents – like the San Carlos Apache Tribe and nonprofit Apache Stronghold – claim things are moving too quickly, the ...

Roughly 4,500 to 7,000 feet beneath Oak Flat, however, is an ore deposit containing approximately 2 billion tons of copper. The U.S. Forest Service estimates that if mined, this deposit could ...

The court rejected an appeal from the nonprofit organization Apache Stronghold, which challenged the transfer of the site known as Oak Flat to the mining company Resolution Copper. In turning away ...

A federal judge issued an injunction Friday that further delays the transfer of Oak Flat, an Indigenous religious ... would make it one of the largest copper mines in the world.

A federal judge in Phoenix denied two motions that sought to halt a land swap for a huge copper mine at Oak Flat, a site east of Phoenix. A different judge blocked the government from issuing its ...

Resolution Copper plans to mine on federal land in the Tonto National Forest known as Oak Flat. Apache Stronghold, a group representing San Carlos Apache Tribe members, says the land is sacred.

The review would allow Resolution Copper to trade land it owns in southern Arizona for Oak Flat, a site considered sacred by the Apache and other Indigenous peoples. The U.S. Forest Service is ...