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Oak Flat event here in Tucson, May 11, 2022

May 9, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

Tucson Supports Oak Flat is sponsoring this event at Grace St. Paul’s Episcopalian Church, E. Adams Street, Tucson.

Filed Under: Action, Events, News, Other mining news

January 15th, 2pm – VIRTUAL Symposium on The Copper World Mining Project and Community Health in the Santa Cruz Valley

January 13, 2022 By Lisa Froelich Leave a Comment

We hope you join us (via Zoom): January 15th, 2pm – Symposium on The Copper World Mining Project and Community Health in the Santa Cruz Valley.

This event is presented by The Democratic Club of Quail Creek (DCQC)

Participants are invited to join the fully-virtual discussion via Zoom. Please click here to pre-register and to join the discussion.

About the symposium:

In September 2021, Hudbay Minerals Inc. announced their interest in extracting minerals from a copper sulphide and oxide mineralization deposit at its Copper World site located on private land on the northwest side of Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains. The results from exploratory drilling completed in June 2021, suggest the possibility of seven deposits at the Copper World site.

The Democratic Club of Quail Creek will expand its January meeting for a symposium on Copper World and related Rosemont issues. The meeting will be on Saturday, January 15th, and participation will be fully virtual.

The symposium will include an update on mining proposals in the northern Santa Ritas, discussions on the impact of mining on the Tohono O’odham of the San Xavier District and all communities in the Santa Cruz Valley, the potential for pollution and draw down of the local aquifer, the decline of air quality, the health consequences to the local residents, and the impact on habitat biodiversity.

Speakers will include Austin Nuñez, Chairman, San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation; Charles Stack, Vice-president, NeoChloris, Inc.; Gayle Hartmann, President, Save the Scenic Santa Ritas; John Murphy (Democratic Club of Quail Creek & Field Museum).

To participate, simply click here to pre-register and join the discussion.

We hope to see you there!

Filed Under: Events, News

ADEQ Meeting in Tucson on Thursday, May 10 – Your Voice is Needed to Protect Our Water

May 2, 2018 By santaritas Leave a Comment

Some of you have probably already received this notice from ADEQ, but for those who haven’t:

ADEQ will be hosting an all-day meeting regarding the Triennial Review of Surface Water Quality Standards on Thurs., May 10 in Room 222 of the northern State of Arizona Building at 400 W. Congress (this building is immediately west of Granada on the corner of Granada and Congress – map).  There is parking on the west side of the building.

Of particularly interest to those of us fighting the Rosemont Mine is the portion of the agenda from 3-5 PM concerning the Outstanding Water issue.  As you know, the proposed Rosemont Mine threatens Las Cienegas Creek,  an Outstanding Arizona Water and Rosemont functionaries are deeply involved in this process.

 

Filed Under: Events, Water

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Litigation Update

Oral arguments for our case before the 9th Circuit Appeals Court were held on February 1, 2021. Because of COVID, the oral arguments were virtual, and we could listen in. You can watch the recording here.

We cannot predict when we will hear a decision, but we expect to have to wait several months.

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