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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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Category Archives: Clean Water Act
EPA recommends rejection of Rosemont Copper’s Clean Water Act permit application for its proposed massive open-pit mine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recommending denial of Rosemont Copper Company’s Clean Water Act permit application pending before the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The Tucson-based citizen’s group Save the Scenic Santa Ritas released a copy of EPA’s Nov. … Continue reading
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BLM warns Forest Service of Rosemont mine’s potential negative impact to Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
After years of standing quietly on the sideline in the tumultuous debate over the Rosemont copper project, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has finally weighed in and expressed serious concerns over the proposed mine’s impact on the Las Cienegas … Continue reading
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EPA rips Rosemont’s wetlands mitigation plan as “scientifically flawed” and failing to comply with Clean Water Act
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has notified Augusta Resource Corp. that its wetlands mitigation plan intended to compensate for damage to streams and springs from its proposed Rosemont copper mine fails to comply with the Clean Water Act. Augusta must … Continue reading
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Rosemont Deception of the Day: EPA’s Role in the Permitting of the Proposed Rosemont Mine
Augusta Resource Corp. the Vancouver, B.C. parent company of Rosemont Copper Co., is misleading the public, investors and Canadian regulators over the authority the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has in issuing a crucial Clean Water Act Permit needed to build … Continue reading
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Save the Scenic Santa Ritas Press Release: “Extraordinary” EPA Letter Says Augusta Resource’s Rosemont Copper Mine “Should Not Proceed as Proposed”
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 24, 2012 — In another major blow to Augusta Resource Corporation’s plans to build an open pit copper mine near Tucson, Arizona, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday the “project should not proceed as proposed.” In a … Continue reading
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