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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

Mines get what they want (Letter to Editor, Arizona Daily Star)

April 24, 2022 By Stu Williams Leave a Comment

https://tucson.com/opinion/letters/letters-to-the-editor-april-24/article_286978bc-c0d0-11ec-b794-eff22a335c30.html

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.

Filed Under: Letters, News, Other mining news, Uncategorized

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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Filed Under: News, Other mining news

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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Filed Under: News, Other mining news

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

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Recent Posts

  • A great win today for our Santa Rita Mountains and for American public lands! May 12, 2022
  • “Uncelebrate!” The 1872 Mining Law is an antiquated law! Support Rep. Grijalva’s and Sen. Heinrich’s legislation, the Clean Energy Minerals Reforms Act of 2022 instead! May 10, 2022
  • Oak Flat event here in Tucson, May 11, 2022 May 9, 2022
  • Dismissing Native American concerns, Hudbay keeps moving dirt (AZ Luminaria feature) May 7, 2022
  • Arizona Public Media’s “The Buzz” interviews Save The Scenic Santa Ritas for episode on mining. May 6, 2022

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  • Hudbay says it is developing plans to build at least three open-pit copper mines on west side of Santa Rita Mountains October 6, 2021
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  • Rosemont will destroy Santa Rita Mountains to export copper overseas May 18, 2021
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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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