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Arizona Daily Star: New jaguar photographed in Southern Arizona; third seen here since ’11

March 2, 2017 By Lisa Froelich Leave a Comment

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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Arizona Daily Star: Judge puts brakes on Patagonia drilling

September 16, 2015 By santaritas Leave a Comment

Curt Prendergast, Arizona Daily Star

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service erred in allowing a mining project to move forward without a detailed environmental review.

In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Marquez in Tucson said the drilling likely would exceed the one-year period required for a categorical exclusion to environmental assessment. Therefore, the Forest Service’s decision to grant the exclusion was arbitrary and capricious, she ruled.

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Aztec Press – Local mining prospects, loss and gain

September 3, 2015 By santaritas Leave a Comment

Sparking controversy, two proposed copper mines in Arizona National Forest have different meanings to different people in the state.

Both the Rosemont and Oak Flat mine proposals are entrenched in the promise of economic prosperity and environmental degradation from the opposing sides.

One undisputable fact, from both views, is that a section of the federally protected land would be lost forever.

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Filed Under: News, Other mining news, Rosemont in the News

Arizona Daily Star Letter to the Editor: More proof that mining is a dirty business

August 18, 2015 By santaritas Leave a Comment

The Gold King mine spill has been an ecological disaster, may affect population health and has hurt businesses. The mine owners are not around to pay for cleanup, if it is even possible.

The 1870s mining law has been obsolete and harmful for years. Why haven’t our governmental representatives replaced this law? It couldn’t be the mining lobby, could it?

There is a lesson for us in Tucson regarding the Rosemont mine. All the owners’ protestations to the contrary, mining is a dirty business with a history of walking away from problems after the profits have been secured.

Dennis Winsten

Northeast side

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Associated Press: Thousands of mines with toxic water lie under the West

August 10, 2015 By santaritas Leave a Comment

DENVER –  Beneath the western United States lie thousands of old mining tunnels filled with the same toxic stew that spilled into a Colorado river last week, turning it into a nauseating yellow concoction and stoking alarm about contamination of drinking water.

Though the spill into the Animas River in southern Colorado is unusual for its size, it’s only the latest instance of the region grappling with the legacy of a centuries-old mining boom that helped populate the region but also left buried toxins.

Until the late 1970s there were no regulations on mining in most of the region, meaning anyone could dig a hole where they liked and search for gold, silver, copper or zinc. Abandoned mines fill up with groundwater and snowmelt that becomes tainted with acids and heavy metals from mining veins which can trickle into the region’s waterways. Experts estimate there are 55,000 such abandoned mines from Colorado to Idaho to California, and federal and state authorities have struggled to clean them for decades. The federal government says 40 percent of the headwaters of Western waterways have been contaminated from mine runoff.

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Litigation Update

Speaking of which (the appeal originally filed in Nov. 2017 challenging the Forest Service’s approval of the mine), we now have a schedule for that case in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals – not definitive, but at least a general time frame:

 

After a lot of negotiating, the lawyers have come to an agreement on the final schedule of our cases before the 9th Circuit Appeals Court. Here is the updated schedule:

  • Feds opening brief due by 1 June 2020
  • Hudbay opening brief due by 15 June 2020
  • Then, our response by 3 September 2020
  • Feds optional reply brief by 2 November 2020
  • Hudbay optional reply brief by 9 November 2020

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