Environmentalists Sue Federal Agencies Over Nation’s First Fast-Tracked Critical Minerals Mine
In the foothills of southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, atop so-called critical minerals such as zinc, is South32’s Hermosa project. The first mine added to a federal program designed to speed up permitting, it “set the standard for what the…
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AuthorWyatt Myskow