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Kaaren Morrissey

US backs Aust-led copper project despite tribe concerns

A major Australia-linked copper project planned for the US has got the backing of Donald Trump. (Simon Mossman/AAP PHOTOS)

Two of Australia's biggest mining companies have got the backing of US President Donald Trump for their planned joint development of an American copper project.

BHP and Rio Tinto want to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America, if they can get a hoped-for transfer of federal forest land in Arizona.

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