Resolution Copper in the Community: 2025 Recap

If there’s one thing 2025 proved, it’s this: engaging with the community isn’t a side project for us. Across the Copper Triangle and surrounding communities, Resolution Copper showed up in hundreds of ways, big and small. Some days it looked like volunteers packing food bags. Other days it looked like robotics kits in classrooms, filling sandbags, or youth baseball teams taking the field.

All together, it adds up to something powerful.

By the Numbers

  • 100+ community programs and initiatives supported
  • Hundreds of local partnerships with schools, nonprofits, tribes, and towns
  • Thousands of employee volunteer hours donated across the region
  • Millions of dollars invested in education, economic development, and community programs
  • Priceless moments supporting the people who call the Copper Corridor home

From Superior, Globe, Miami, Kearny, Hayden-Winkelman, San Carlos , and Apache Junction to Gold Canyon, our work stretched across the entire region with one goal: strengthen the places where people live, work, and raise families.

Where We Showed Up:

Education & Workforce Development

The future of the Copper Corridor starts in the classroom. In 2025, we invested heavily in education programs that help students explore STEM, trades, and career opportunities.

Highlights included:

  • Multi-year partnership with Superior Unified School District
  • Superior LEGO Robotics and Globe robotics programs inspiring future engineers
  • Reading & Discovery program reaching 8 local schools across the Copper Corridor
  • Hayden, Ray, and Miami school STEM programs expanding hands-on learning
  • Enterprise Center welding program helping build the region’s skilled workforce
  • D-backs Science of Baseball clinics and STEM Dugout programs connecting sports and science
  • ASU Sparky visits, career fairs, and mock interviews helping students imagine new futures
  • Scholarships for graduating seniors investing directly in the next generation

Because strong communities start with strong schools.

Food Security & Community Care

No one in our communities should have to worry about their next meal. Sometimes the most meaningful work is the quiet kind. The kind that happens early in the morning in a warehouse packing food boxes.

Highlights included:

  • 67 employees volunteering140 hours at the Superior Food Bank
  • 1,530 emergency food bags packed with United Food Bank
  • Holiday meal supportreaching hundreds of families across the Copper Corridor
  • 300 Thanksgiving food bags packed in Gold Canyon
  • Support for Gila Community Food Bank, Salvation Army, and local food pantries

Environmental Stewardship

Protecting the land and the places people love is part of the job. In 2025, employees and partners participated in cleanups and stewardship projects across the region. Stewardship isn’t just a policy. It’s boots on the ground and gloves in the dirt.

Highlights included:

  • Superior Earth Day cleanup filling a 15-yard trailer with trash
  • LOST Trail cleanups and trailhead improvements
  • Boyce Thompson Arboretum volunteer days and educator workshops
  • Miami “M” restoration project
  • Hewitt Station cleanup
  • Community water monitoring in Superior

Economic Development

Thriving communities need thriving economies. In 2025, we supported local economic development through partnerships with chambers, municipalities, and regional organizations. Because economic opportunities are the foundation of resilient rural communities.

Highlights included:

  • Superior Chamber of Commerce multi-year partnership
  • Rebuild Superior long-term partnership
  • Superior Hotel feasibility study supporting tourism growth
  • Globe-Miami Chamber electronic sign project
  • Regional economic development partnerships with Globe and Gila County
  • Local supplier engagement events and workforce roundtables

Emergency Response & Public Safety

When communities face challenges, showing up matters. In 2025 we supported emergency response efforts and public safety across the region. Community resilience depends on preparation, partnership, and people willing to step up.

Highlights included:

  • Support for Globe’s new fire truck
  • Ongoing partnership with Superior Emergency Services
  • $1 million contributiontoward flood relief efforts
  • Sandbag distribution and flood cleanup across Globe and Miami
  • Volunteer disaster recovery efforts after regional storms

Culture, Recreation & Community Traditions

A strong community isn’t just about infrastructure. It’s about traditions, art, and gathering together. In 2025 we supported events and programs that bring people together, the moments where community comes to life.

Highlights included:

  • Superior Prickly Pear Festival sponsorship
  • Town of Superior and Kearny 4th of July fireworks
  • Miracle on Main Street parade
  • Superior Halloween Trunk or Treat
  • Youth sports programs across the Copper Corridor
  • Superior Dance Company partnership
  • Bullion Plaza Museum upgrades preserving mining history
  • Pinal Mountain Little League and Hayden-Winkelman Little League support

Tribal Partnerships

Our partnerships with Tribal communities are long-term, meaningful, and rooted in respect. In 2025 we continued supporting programs that help strengthen education, youth opportunity, cultural connection and community wellness.

Highlights included:

  • Native American Basketball Invitational sponsorship
  • White Mountain Apache youth sports partnerships
  • San Carlos holiday meal support serving nearly 500 people
  • Fort Thomas elementary school mural project celebrating culture and identity
  • Inter-Tribal youth baseball tournament with 1,500+ participants
  • Rehabilitation support on 3 sport courtsfor WMAT youth

The Big Picture

Looking back at 2025, the numbers tell part of the story.

But the real impact shows up in smaller moments.

A student building their first robot.

A volunteer packing food boxes on a Friday afternoon.

A baseball game on a newly renovated field.

A family receiving a holiday meal.

Those moments are why community work matters.

At Resolution Copper, we believe mining should strengthen the places where we operate. That means investing in people, building partnerships, and supporting the towns and Tribal communities that make the Copper Corridor special.