Rosemont Mine
Presentations from the June 18 Public Forum in Tucson
What About Our Water?
Biological Resources
Presentations from the April 17 Public Forum in Vail
Cienega
Watershed Partnership
Save the Scenic Santa Ritas
Rosemont Mine Claim Validity Report
Augusta Resource's Mine Plan of Operations, July 11, 2007.
Executive Summary of Augusta Resource's Mine Plan of Operations, July 11, 2007
Forest Service Press Release requesting more information from Augusta Resource, Oct. 19, 2007
Augusta Resource's Drilling Plan, submitted to the Forest Service, March 1, 2007
Augusta Resource's first Mining Plan of Operations submitted to the Forest Service in July 2006.
Geologic Survey of the Rosemont Area, Dec. 2006
Pima County reports relating to the Rosemont Mine
Sept. 30, 2009, Pima County letter to the Forest Service regarding NEPA alternative analysis, Geochemical review by Ann Maest
Pima County, Clean Water Act Effectiveness Review, Jan. 13, 2009
Pima County's Groundwater Model of the Santa Rita Rosemont Project Site, by Tom Myers, April 28, 2008
Pima County's Memo and Resolution regarding the Green Valley CAP pipeline proposal by Augusta Resource, Dec. 4, 2007
Pima County's comments on water impacts from the proposed mine, Tom Myers report, Sept. 5, 2007
Pima County preliminary review of the possible hydrologic impacts from the Rosemont Mine to the Cienega Watershed, Sept. 5, 2007
Hydrogeology of the Santa Rita Rosemont Site, by Tom Myers, report to the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Aug. 8, 2007
(link to the report on the Pima County website)
Protecting Pima County's natural resource assets from mining activities, Pima County, Feb. 20, 2007
Pima County's comments on Augusta's Mining Plan, Oct. 2006
Preserving the Santa Rita Rosemont Ranch
(This report was prepared in Dec. 2004 by Pima County, to propose purchase of the Rosemont Ranch properties with 2004 Open Space Bond money.)
Water Quality
Economics
Mining's potential economic impacts in the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains Region of Southeastern Arizona, by Josef Marlow, the Sonoran Institute, Dec. 2007
Mining's potential economic impacts Executive Summary
Mining's potential economic impacts study area map
Look behind the scenes to see who Augusta really is - do we really want to trust them with our precious Santa Rita Mountains? Information on Augusta Resource from their SEC filings, Dec. 31, 2006
Arizona Mining Scams And Unassayable Ore Projects Of The Late 20th Century, by W. Scott Donaldson, dedicated to the memory of Mason Coggin, a passionate combatant of mining scams. It's enlightening and worth reading, you may recognize a few tricks used by Rosemont.Mining Law and Mineral Entry
Southern Arizona Public Lands Act of 2007, bill to withdraw Forest Service lands in Southern Arizona from mineral entry, from Congressman Grijalva
Mining in the sky islands, special report by the Sky Island Alliance
Under the Mining Law of 1872, mining claims must be valid for a mining company to develop a mine on public lands. Even though the Pima County Board of Supervisors passed their resolution opposing the mine, the Forest Service is the agency that has the authority to approve or deny the mine proposal.
Pima County's letter to the Forest Service requesting that the validity of Augusta's mining claims at Rosemont be examined.
To read written testimony submitted by the six invited witnesses at Grijalva's Feb. 24 hearing in Tucson, go to: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=15
Clean Water Act / Santa Cruz River TNW
This is the Los Angeles District-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
determination that two reaches of the Santa Cruz River, located in Pima,
Pinal and Santa Cruz counties, are considered traditionally navigable
waters. This memo contains background information supporting the
determination. This is important because it may require the Rosemont Mine to get additional permits to protect water quality downstream from the site.
Biological Studies
Pima County report on the July 31, 2006 floods and debris flows
Coronado Planning Partnership, Report on the State of the Coronado National Forest
The Borderlands Jaguar Protection Project: A Report on the Jaguar in Southeastern Arizona (warning! this is a very large file!)
Ecosystem Services Discussion Paper
"The ultimate test of a moral society
is the kind of world
that it leaves to its children "
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
