The Morenci open pit mine and the topography of the Arizona Transition Zone, with Morenci’s two 600-foot-high smelter stacks at left.

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An appeal from Apaches who want to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred has been rejected by the Supreme Court.

The Western Apache are trying to defend sacred site of Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel) in Arizona, which is set to become a copper mine.

Nearly 6,000 acres of old Arizona farmland once intended for a residential subdivision is on track to potentially become home to the first big new U.S. copper mine in more than a decade.

Native leaders say the courts have not treated religious rights equally, pointing to the current fight over Oak Flat.

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