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Recent Posts
- 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: Hudbay
Hudbay confronted over its conflicts with indigenous people
A Canadian mining activist confronted Hudbay Mineral’s CEO Alan Hair on the company’s history of violent and repressive conflict with indigenous people during the company’s annual meeting earlier this month in Toronto. Before asking her pointed question, Rachel Small, a … Continue reading
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Audubon Society urges feds to reject Rosemont Mine permit
The Tucson Audubon Society has requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deny a crucial Clean Water Act permit needed for the proposed Rosemont Copper Mine because of environmental threats to its internationally-famous birding center near Patagonia. The Paton … Continue reading
Posted in Clean Water Act, Hudbay, water
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Proposed state stream rule changes could help Rosemont Mine
Arizona environmental regulators are considering rule changes that could weaken protections for streams that would help clear the way for construction of the proposed Rosemont Copper Mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest southeast of Tucson. … Continue reading
Posted in Hudbay, water
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A murder in Guatemala raises questions of intimidation
The nephew of a plaintiff in a Toronto civil suit against Hudbay Minerals Inc. was beaten to death last month raising questions whether the murder was an attempt to intimidate Guatemalan Mayan activists in their ongoing civil and criminal cases … Continue reading
Posted in Hudbay, Human Rights, Labor
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Three Arizona tribes file federal law suit against U.S. Forest Service seeking to block Hudbay’s Rosemont Copper Mine
The Tohono O’odham Nation, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the Hopi Tribe sued the U.S. Forest Service in U.S. District Court on April 13 challenging the agency’s approval of a plan by Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. to build the $1.9 … Continue reading
Posted in EIS, General, Hudbay, Human Rights
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