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- 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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Video Highlights from the 2nd Rosemont Public Meeting on 11.19.2011
Posted in Public Hearing
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The Forest Service does not understand why it’s inappropriate for Rosemont’s PR firm to organize public comments
Excellent overview article in the Tucson Weekly.
The Forest Service’s response to Rosemont’s PR firm planning the public comment process is: “[i]t was just logistics—just helping us with the workload.”
So according to the Forest Service, it is apparently ok for a private party that stands to gain hundred of millions of dollars from the exploitation of public lands to help with “logistics.”
Unbelievable. What other logistics is it ok for Augusta/Rosemont to help with?
Posted in EIS, General, Public Comment
Tagged Arizona, Augusta Resource, Coronado National Forest, EIS, public comment, Rosemont Copper, Santa Rita Mountains, Tucson
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Augusta/Rosemont Lobbyist Soundly Defeated in Tucson Mayor’s Race
Less than 90 minutes after the polls closed, the Arizona Daily Star called the Tucson Mayor’s race and the winner was NOT Rosemont lobbyist Rick Grinnell.
It appears that running on a platform of permanently destroying our mountains to enrich a junior Canadian mining company and it’s foreign investors was not such a good thing.
Posted in General
Tagged Arizona, Augusta Resource, Rick Grinnell, Rosemont Copper, Tucson
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Rosemont caught with its hand in the cookie jar (again)
In another sordid chapter involving the Forest Service and its relationship with Augusta Resource and its subsidiary Rosemont Copper, a letter signed by 11 leaders of environmental and conservation organizations was sent this week to Coronado National Forest Supervisor Jim Upchurch demanding that he “take immediate and decisive steps” to restore public confidence in the public comment process for the draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed massive open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, AZ. Continue reading
Posted in EIS
Tagged EIS, public comment
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Rosemont Mine Truth Report from the First Forest Service Public Hearing
Its easy for Rosemont Copper to pack a Forest Service hearing when their PR firm is helping organize the meetings.
Check out and send around this report.