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Kyl, McCain try again to win OK for new mine near Superior

The Arizona Daily Star

MESA — U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain have introduced legislation for the third year in a row that would allow a new copper mine to be developed over a huge mineral deposit outside Superior.

The mine project proposed by Resolution Copper Mining, the Arizona joint subsidiary of Britain's Rio Tinto and Australia's BHP Billiton, needs the legislation to pass to acquire federal land over the underground mine site.

The bill introduced Tuesday by the two Arizona Republicans would give Resolution Copper about 3,025 acres three miles east of Superior in exchange for seven parcels totaling 4,583 acres of environmentally sensitive land throughout Arizona.

Posted by Editor at July 26, 2007 01:18 AM

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