James Phillips, an Apache tribe member who works for the Resolution Mining Co., stands on a platform overlooking Oak Flat, where the company is planning a copper mine. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to a land swap enabling mining at a sacred Indigenous site, garnering pushback from conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas.
The San Carlos Apache Tribe says the Resolution Copper mine could further degrade a sacred stream. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an Arizona tribe’s request to halt a underground copper mine ...
The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an Apache religious challenge to the construction of a massive copper mine on Oak Flat, a swath of untouched federal land in Arizona that tribe members ...