The less glamorous side — the poop shoveled, the low wages — is rarely shown.
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Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
The presiding minister elected not to deliver a funeral sermon; dirt was shoveled on top of the mahogany box only three minutes after the service began.
Although copper has been mined in the area surrounding Oak Flat off and on since the 1870s, the current struggle over the fate of the campground — deemed sacred by Apaches and other Native peoples and ecologically sensitive by environmentalists — has a history of at least 30 years.
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Debra Utacia Krol,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
In addition, Toor said, Craig 1 was built near a coal seam that has had all of its coal mined.
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