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Resolution Copper Company is trying to obtain a land swap
in order to mine at Arizona’s Oak Flat campground, a popular
rock-climbing spot
by Hilary Watts,
Jul 16, 2008
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Phelps Dodge wants to open a big copper mine near Safford,
Ariz., but some critics say that the company’s planned land
swap is a rip-off, and that the mine may have harmful environmental
impacts
by Mitch Tobin,
Jul 16, 2008
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Phelps Dodge Corporation is at loggerheads with
environmentalists and the state of New Mexico over plans to clean
up the Chino Mine, an open-pit copper mine near Silver
City
by Gail Binkly,
May 12, 2003
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Activists are fighting a copper and silver mine planned
for underneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in
Montana.
by Matt Jenkins and Ron Selden,
Feb 18, 2002
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The controversial proposed Carlota copper mine near Pinto
Creek in southern Arizona has all the permits it needs, but
activists hope an uncertain copper market and the company's
financial troubles will keep it from opening.
by Tim Sullivan,
Dec 18, 2000
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Skyrocketing electric rates and a resulting shutdown of
operations by copper mining company Montana Resources mean that
increased untreated runoff is flowing into the Berkeley Pit, the
country's largest Superfund site.
by Kate Spinner,
Oct 23, 2000
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Introduction to Edwin Dobb's feature on mining the past in
Butte, Montana.
by Ed Marston,
Jun 07, 1999
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The history of the copper-mining town of Butte, Mont.,
sparks a searching meditation on the meaning and value of work and
the place it holds now, as the Old West becomes the New
West.
by Edwin Dobb,
Jul 16, 2008
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Arizona orders copper companies to clean up mining
contamination near the small towns of Globe and Miami.
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Oct 26, 1998
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The EPA fines ASARCO $62 million with most of the money
going to clean up a copper mine in Ray, Ariz., and a smelter in
East Helena, Mont.
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Apr 13, 1998
