Tag: SaveOakFlat

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Apache Stronghold v. United States, a case that challenged the federal government’s planned transfer of Oak Flat—a sacred site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest—to a copper mining company. The decision allows the land swap to proceed, enabling Resolution Copper, a partnership between mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP, to develop one of the world’s largest known underground copper mines.