The SSSR Team sent a letter to the director of the Arizona State Land Department. A very logical request.
Federal Memo May Bolster Hudbay’s Position on Rosemont Mine Site
By Tony Davis, Feb 26, Arizona Daily Star
Assistant Army Secretary Michael Connor wrote an August 2022 memo withdrawing a decision that had overruled an earlier decision freeing the Rosemont site’s washes from federal Clean Water Act protection. Connor’s latest decision appears to restore a 2021 Army Corps of Engineers decision that the washes at the Rosemont site aren’t covered by the Clean Water Act. Despite that, late Friday an Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman referred in an email to a possibility of enforcement action against Hudbay’s plans to grade washes inside an area of the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson that’s covered by a now-suspended Clean Water Act permit for the Rosemont Mine.
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Hudbay Minerals Stock Tumbled 16% Last Week to US$4.55 per Share
Production continues at its Constancia copper mine in Peru, which has suffered widespread protests and highway blockades affecting mining operations since the ouster of President Pedro Castillo in December, the company reported last month. Hudbay was left with 25,000 tonnes of copper concentrate unsold in Peru at the end of the fourth quarter, it said.
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Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas
By Ella Nilsen, CNN
Updated 3:02 AM EST, Sun November 27, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owned-farms-climate
“Why are we allowing a foreign company to come into Arizona – which is drought-stricken right now – and have a sweetheart deal [on leases], when we are trying to conserve as much water as we can?” says outgoing state House member Regina Cobb.
“It boggles my mind,” She said.
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