The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that's sacred to Apaches

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By MARK SHERMAN
Updated 12:54 PM EDT, May 27, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred.

The justices left in place lower court decisions allowing the transfer of the Tonto National Forest land, known as Oak Flat, to Resolution Copper, which plans to mine what it says is the second-largest known copper deposit in the world.

The Trump administration has said it will push to complete the transfer.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-arizona-oak-flat-copper-mining-apache-64bb0d7c2bbf544f707ce3a421b67209

Well there's the Anglo European religion and then there is native...........which one perpetuated the genocide based on greed.............just look at the Black Hills...............or what happened in Georgia ...................for starters.........hell lets go back to the Spanish invasion .................

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1. The only thing sacred in the US any more is getting more money for Maggots.

[k_buddy762]

2. The gov can be assured to do nothing

that will interfere with the collecting of resources that support EVs and cellular phones.

[Deuxcents]

3. Nothing is sacred to them but the almighty dollar.

[dsc]

4. It really is galling to see decisions such as this

given the fact that the same court allows religion to trump any and all civil rights for LGBT people.

[stillcool]

5. of course they do

every piece of land needs to be raped by major stockholders of global industries.

[tritsofme]

6. Gorsuch and Thomas being the only (at least public) dissents, makes me think there is more there.