Tucson Weekly

Catch Documentary on Rosemont Mine on TV This Sunday

Investigative journalist John Dougherty’s documentary about Hudbay Minerals, the new owners of the proposed Rosemont Copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains, will be coming to your living room this ...
PBS

Collapse at Chile’s major copper mine kills 1 worker and leaves 5 missing

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A collapse at a copper mine in Chile killed one worker and left five trapped underground, authorities said on Friday, forcing Chile’s state mining company to suspend operations ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah’s massive open-pit copper mine wants to expand. Here’s a look inside.

From a viewpoint at about 6,190 feet above sea level, a giant hole in the Oquirrh Mountains stretches two and a half miles wide and ¾ of a mile deep. Trucks with tires bigger than a sedan look like ...
PBS

Supreme Court rejects plea to block Arizona copper mine on land sacred to Apaches

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 ...