Blog on Mines and Mining

Today, more than 25 organizations, presented the 2026 Environmental Priorities for the Arizona Legislature and Governor.

Yesterday, Representative Paul Gosar introduced two bills to undermine land protections and the leadership of local Tribes, including one to nullify the nearly one million acre Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency injunction today blocking the Trump administration from handing Oak Flat over to a private mining company while three lawsuits challenging the land exchange proceed.

A federal judge in Arizona temporarily halted the Oak Flat land exchange today while two lawsuits challenging the exchange proceed.

The Trump administration announced plans to advance a land swap that will give international mining giant Rio Tinto control over Oak Flat on the Tonto National Forest.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— Following Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's order for a review of national monuments and mineral withdrawals — part of the Trump administration's plan for “unleashing American energy" — a coalition of Tribes,...

... to use her authority to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine that threatens the waters of Grand Canyon and the Havasupai Tribe -- This comes after the groups, scientists, and many others sent a letter to the governor in January, outlining the...

Plate tectonics has blessed (or cursed?) Arizona with minerals -- copper, gold, lithium, uranium, zinc, lead, coal, and more -- extracted from the earth at the expense of the environment and indigenous people -- permitted by obsolete federal mining...

Background information on local mines...

Statement from Stuart Chavez of the Havasupai Tribe = “The work that the Havasupai Tribe has done to stop uranium mining is important because of the sacredness of Havasupai ancestral lands and the natural resources that surround the current mining...