Federal forest land in Arizona was officially transferred to a mining company owned by two international companies, Resolution Copper, after decades of legal battles over its future. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ended an injunction that had halted the land exchange, stating that the arguments brought by a coalition of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, conservationists, and another group of Apache women would be unsuccessful in courts. The Supreme Court denied a request by some of the plaintiffs to intervene, resulting in a loss for Apache women. The transfer of more than 5,400 acres of environmentally and culturally sensitive land to the USFS and Bureau of Land Management. In return, Resolution has received over 2,400 acre land adjacent to the historic Magma Copper mine. The company claims that the mine has the potential to generate $1 billion annually and create thousands of jobs.