Websites
Online Videos and other media
Documents
Coronado National Forest, Rosemont Mine proposal information
Coronado National Forest, Regulations page related to the NEPA process and the Rosemont Mine
Arizona Conservation Partnership, Mining & 1872 Reform
Federal government website of Abandoned Mines
Hilton Ranch Road Community Organization (tons of great info!)
Kathiesbirds Blog on the Rosemont Mine
Water News, Special Edition on Drought
U.S. EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
The 2006 Toxics Release Inventory shows a slight decline in total toxic chemicals released in the country, as well as a 17 percent increase in releases of mercury. Arizona's total toxic releases shot up by 52 percent from 2005 to 2006 due almost entirely to pollution from on-site land disposal in the metal mining industry. Phelps Dodge Miami, a copper mine, reported a 33 million pound increase in on-site land disposal in 2006, releasing 59 million pounds of waste -- over half the state's total for 2006.
Earthworks
A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the destructive impacts of mineral development, in the U.S. and worldwide. Earthworks is actively helping us stop Augusta.
Western Mining Action Network
Lots of links to good information and resources
San Rafael Valley website, info on the Patagonia mining threats, by Zay Hartigan
Cactus Huggers, Murray Bolesta, local Green Valley photographer. Purchase his beautiful book of photographs "Moods of the Santa Ritas of Southern Arizona", with a forward by Save the Scenic Santa Ritas. Murray will donate $3 from each book to SSSR!
Tubac Villager, Box Canyon, Nov. 8, 2008, page 1
Tubac Villager, Box Canyon, Nov. 8, 2008, page 2
Friends of the Desert Newsletter, a project of the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection
Sierra Club, Arizona, Legislative Updates
Coronado National Forest
National Forest Open Space Conservation Strategy Document (November 2007)
Arizona Trail Construction Project
(a portion of the Arizona Trail will go through Rosemont Valley)
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection
Sonoita Crossroads Community Forum
Pima County - Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan
Save the Santa Cruz Aquifer
(provides information on the pollution and depletion of water resources by local copper mines)
We are funded mainly from private donations, and also from grants from the following foundations and organizations:
Fund for Wild Nature
Patagonia Regional Community Foundation
Patagonia Clothing Foundation
Rincon Group of the Grand Canyon Chapter, Sierra Club
Palo Verde Group of the Grand Canyon Chapter, Sierra Club
Saguaro Group of the Grand Canyon Chapter, Sierra Club
Grand Canyon Chapter, Sierra Club
Online Videos and other media
Ode to the Santa Ritas, by Valerie Smith, Vail
Must-see YouTube videos, courtesy of www.hiltonroad.com
More videos on the Rosemont Mine:
http://www.youtube.com/VailCoronaAZ
KUAZ Radio, Arizona Spotlight, Rosemont Mine, April 18, 2008 (podcast)
SSSR PSA on Tucson radio (mp3)
Outdoor Alliance: Hardrock Mining - Rethink: Reform Video on 1872 Mining Law Reform
Video on Mining the New American West from PEW
SSSR's President Gayle Hartmann on Arizona Illustrated about the Rosemont mine, April 9, 2008
Press Release Feb. 19, 2008: The Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining radio ads in Colorado, Montana and New Mexico to inform Rocky Mountain audiences about an outdated 135-year-old law that governs the mining of copper, gold, uranium and other hardrock minerals on federal lands in the West. These are mp3's.
Watch Augusta's visualization video on the Rosemont Mine to see how they want to change the Santa Ritas - forever.