Trump called those opposing the mine ‘Anti-American’ and said the country needs copper ‘NOW!’

Opponents of the mine, including the San Carlos Apache Tribe, said they will never stop fighting to protect the land.

President Trump this week threw his full support behind a massive project to turn a sacred Apache site outside Phoenix into one of the world’s largest copper mines , meeting with mining executives at the White House and ridiculing a recent court decision that temporarily halted the transfer of federal lands to their companies.

Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met in the White House on Tuesday with several executives from Rio Tinto and BHP, the two multinational mining companies behind the planned Resolution Copper mine. As proposed, the mine would turn Oak Flat — a l

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