Quechan appeal granted; Oro Cruz project goes down
In what has been a years-long fight to fend off efforts to mine sites and areas the Quechan Indian Tribe say are culturally significant, the tribe was victorious in preserving those sites this week with an unexpected win against Canada’s SMP Gold Corp. … The federally protected land, under the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, is culturally significant and important to the Quechan Indian Tribe and its members have been vehemently fighting the Oro Cruz mining project for years, with the support of other tribes, and numerous environmental and social justice groups and concerned residents behind them. … After the hearing, White elaborated further and told the Calexico Chronicle that the tribe is trying to dedicate the Cargo Muchacho Mountains area as the “Kw’tsán National Monument”
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