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After seeing the blight on the landscape that solar panels and windmills produce, my first response is NO mining.
Discuss, and get all the details out in the open.
Then ... We’ll see.
Give them a little money....like a few million...and they’ll let it happen.
Not every scrap of earth or building has to be saved for what ever reason. The future of mankind does relay on resources that are gained from the earth, that is until we can start mining asteroids & comets for the minerals we need.Then the eggheads would say we need to study them to understand somethingelse...We can never win with them.
Humanity doesn’t owe anything to the Apache.
What about all of the white eyes’ “sacred” places. They are all being destroyed by the communists and we don’t hear all this whining about them?
I think that is Apache Peak, about 45 miles NE of Phoenix.
There is an Apache Mountain in New Mexico, but it is in Gila NF.
You can’t walk a mile down a dry river bed without disturbing a Hohokam Indian ruin. Oak Flat was a camp for the Apache raiders who jumped to their death rather than surrender to the army. The wall around the Picket Post mansion is topped by metates and grinding stones found in the area. Queen Creek is lined by ruins from different ages. I used to find arrowheads on my way to school. Let the archaeologists do their rescue work and then the project can proceed. That’s how it’s done on every road, pipeline or housing subdivision. Environmental extremists and anti capitalists are out to stop this project and, in the process, bankrupt the evil mining company.
The history of those who came before us is fascinating. I hope an equitable deal can be worked out to preserve the heritage of the living apaches affected in the area. There should be a way to harvest the ore while preserving the site.
The actual historical location is thought to be near Superior, AZ, and is a cliff called Apache Leap.
The first ten years of Arizona license plates for cars were made of copper.
You note that the mine isn’t at the supposed historical site but is “overlooked” by the historic site. So we are talking about view shed to a mountain where there is no viewing because it is desert mountain area.
The is no cultivation of crops, so why not use the minerals and enrich the tribe and the miners? Good control of impact is all that is needed.
