Trump Backs Huge Arizona Copper Mine as Apache Win Late Reprieve to Halt It

Why is the government letting a Chinese-backed company bulldoze sacred US land?

This summer, like many Americans, I returned to my hometown.The familiar contours of the landscape — the Great Lakes, sand dunes, and lush forests — carried with them memories not only of childhood but of something deeper: a sense of rootedness. Land is never just geography. It holds meaning. And when that meaning comes from religious devotion, religious liberty demands our respect.Religious freedom means little if it only shields believers from…

Trump backs huge Arizona copper mine as Apache win late reprieve to halt it

President Trump threw his support this week behind a massive project to turn an Apache sacred site outside Phoenix into one of the world's largest copper mines.

Court stops sacred Oak Flat land transfer to Resolution Copper in emergency order

A federal appeals court was asked – for a second time – to consider whether the proposed Resolution Copper Mine will infringe on the religious rights of local Apache by creating a massive crater on land that tribal members consider sacred. It is the latest twist in a years-long fight over the project. Photo by Jamie Cochran Cronkite NewsHours before the federal government was expected to transfer land in eastern Arizona to a mining company, a f…

Land transfer including Indigenous sacred site blocked again; Trump plans appeal - Catholic Review

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A federal appeals court temporarily blocked Aug. 18 a federal land transfer to a copper mining giant that would lead to the destruction of a site considered sacred by Indigenous peoples. But President Donald Trump said Aug. 19 his administration would continue to pursue that land transfer. In an Aug. 18 temporary restraining order, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the transfer of a piece of land containing Oa…

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land — Wyatt Myskow (InsideClimateNews.com)

An aerial view of Oak Flat in Arizona. Credit: EcoFlight Click the link to read the article on the Inside Climate News website (Wyatt Myskow): August 19, 2025 The San Carlos Apache Tribe and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by the tribe. Just hours before the deal was set to go through, a federal appeals cou…