The sale of a federally protected area in Arizona that Native American tribes have used for religious ceremonies for centuries has been halted by a court due to an ongoing legal battle.
The site was to be mined for copper.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled on Monday that the 7-square-mile area known as Oak Flat in the Tonto National Forest, located in Arizona’s Pinal County, cannot be sold to British-Australian mining company Resolution Copper until federal judges have a chance to consider emergency petitions filed by Apache Stronghold, a coalition of Native Americans and advocates fighting the transfer.
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