Rio and BHP’s massive US copper mine faces religious freedom challenge
Peter KerResources reporter
Religious freedom campaigners will bankroll a new legal challenge against the development of the largest copper mine in the United States, backing a Native American group that wants to tear up a deal to transfer land to Rio Tinto and BHP.
Lawyers acting for Apache Stronghold – a group representing some, but not all, members of the San Carlos Apache tribe that live close to the Resolution Copper project – have asked the Court of Appeals to halt a 2014 deal to transfer federal land for the mine.
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