Blog on Mines and Mining

Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) announced...the "Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act" to permanently protect...from foreign mining operations...destroy tribal cultural and religious heritage sites...sacred to...tribal nations in Arizona...for millennia...

Senate must pass Grand Canyon mining ban before 117th Congress ends

SUPERIOR, Ariz.— Lawsuit...Seeking EPA Pollution Limits for Arizona Creek Threatened by Copper Mine -- Conservation groups filed NOI to sue the EPA today in response to the ADEQ’s decades-long failure to limit pollution in Queen Creek -- Resolution...

Senate Committee Marks Up Grand Canyon Protection Act -- Arizonans Support Protecting 1 Million Acres Near Canyon from Mining -- Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considered and offered amendments on the Grand Canyon...

Arizonans Urge Senate to Protect 1 Million Acres Near Canyon from Mining -- A Senate subcommittee held a hearing today on the Grand Canyon Protection Act -- an important step toward passage of legislation that will protect about 1 million acres of...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK― Conservationists Back Havasupai Tribe’s Opposition to Grand Canyon Uranium Mine ― Arizona Regulators OK’d Mine Permit Despite Risk to Canyon’s Water ― Conservation groups joined the Havasupai Tribe today to denounce the...

TUCSON, Ariz.— A federal appeals court today upheld the invalidation of the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a controversial open-pit copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains ... is another blow to Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals’ plans...

For Immediate Release -- Mine Threatens to Deplete, Pollute Groundwater, Springs -- GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality approved an aquifer protection permit late Thursday for a uranium mine near Grand...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) proposed an aquifer protection permit Wednesday for a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park, with a history of flooding. The mine flooding threatens to...

PHOENIX— The National Congress of American Indians and conservation groups today urged Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) to cosponsor the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, which permanently bans new uranium mining across 1 million acres of public...