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- University of Arizona is advancing Copper World by quietly approving utility corridors across world-class research site
- After making a secret right-of-way deal, the State Land Department is poised to auction land for Copper World’s waste dumps
- Hudbay will initially export all copper produced at its proposed Copper World mine
- Hudbay wavers in its commitment that Rosemont/Copper World will produce copper for U.S. markets
- Canadian company planning Copper World/Rosemont mine complex is seeking buyer or merger partners
- USGS rejects request by six U.S. senators to add copper to Critical Minerals List
- Hudbay sets benchmarks to build Copper World/Rosemont mine complex
- Copper World’s high production of sulfuric acid poses serious pollution and water depletion threat to Santa Cruz River Valley
- Hudbay says it is developing plans to build at least three open-pit copper mines on west side of Santa Rita Mountains
- Hudbay tells investors and analysts that it owns enough land to mine the western side of the Santa Rita Mountains
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Rosemont mine is lynchpin to Hudbay’s plan to construct massive industrial mining complex in southern Arizona
In the wake of taking control of Augusta Resource Corp. and its Rosemont Copper Company subsidiary, Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals is already looking to expand its planned industrial mining operations in the Santa Rita Mountains to other sites in Southern Arizona, Hudbay … Continue reading
Posted in Hudbay, Uncategorized
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Hudbay’s purchase of Augusta expected to close by end of July
Toronto-based Hudbay Mineral Resources is expected to complete the C$555 million purchase of Augusta Resource Corporation and take control of Augusta’s Rosemont Copper Company subsidiary by the end of July, according to regulatory filings. After months of bitter exchanges between … Continue reading
Posted in Hudbay
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Hudbay has ugly environmental and human rights track record, warns a Canadian mining watchdog group
A Canadian mining watchdog group is warning that Hudbay Mineral Resources, the Toronto-based company seeking to gain control of the Rosemont copper project, has “a profound disrespect for the environments and communities where it operates.” MiningWatch Canada program coordinator Ramsey … Continue reading
Posted in Hudbay, Human Rights
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Augusta Resource running out of options in its nine-year effort to develop Rosemont copper project
The clock is running down on Vancouver, B.C.-based Augusta Resource Corporation’s nine-year effort to develop the controversial Rosemont copper project in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest southeast of Tucson. But that doesn’t mean the attempt to … Continue reading
Posted in EIS
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Red Kite waives loan condition and advances Augusta Resource $6 million to address endangered species review
In the wake of federal wildlife regulators’ decision to reopen studies of the proposed Rosemont copper mine’s impact on endangered species, cash-strapped Augusta Resource Corporation has obtained a $6 million loan advance and now expects final federal approvals to be … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water Act, Endangered Species, Investors, water, Wildlife
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