Fighting to protect the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains from the devastating impacts of mining.
Buying the dormant Idaho-Maryland gold mine in Grass Valley, California, a Canadian gold-mining entrepreneur runs into community opposition as townsfolk and Indigenous people claim threats to water supplies and cite predecessor mine’s toxic legacy.
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Citing a failure to consult with Native Americans, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reverses decisions on ‘jurisdictional waters’ for the Georgia Twin Pines Minerals project and another, unspecified Tucson, Arizona-area mining project (to be updated).
Tucson Supports Oak Flat is sponsoring this event at Grace St. Paul’s Episcopalian Church, E. Adams Street, Tucson.
Richard Govern argues that the state of Arizona accommodates the mining industry and foreign investors while Arizona residents get left holding the bag: depleted groundwater, polluted air and water, and millions of tons of tailings and waste rock. That doesn’t sound like a fair deal to us, either.
A new jaguar has been documented to exist in Southern Arizona — the second in the past four months and the third since 2011.
It’s the seventh jaguar documented to have been in the Southwest since 1996, after only one was known to occur in this region in the previous 20 years.
The jaguar was photographed on Nov. 16 in the Dos Cabezas Mountains in Cochise County, about 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border, Arizona Game and Fish officials said in a news release Thursday morning. The jaguar’s sex couldn’t be determined by the photo, taken on a U.S. Bureau of Land Management-owned trail camera, Game and Fish said.
The photo was only recently retrieved and is the only jaguar photo the BLM camera has taken since the agency installed it last August, Game and Fish said.
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Check out Pima County’s updated map of the proposed mine site. Click on any spot on the map for ownership/status information. Mapping details are based on Hudbay’s PEA dated May 1.
