Websites
Online Videos and other media
Documents
Coronado National Forest Rosemont Copper Project EIS Website
This site lets you search the over 11,000 comments by name, or words. The list of Cooperating Agencies, updates on the process, and other documents are also available on the site.
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
USGS Mineral Resources Online Spatial Data Web site
The new Water Law Reading Room includes a comprehensive case law index, the National AgLaw Center publications, an overview article, a federal statute compilation, and a compilation of each state's water laws and regulations. The room also contains valuable links to federal agencies, a listing of states' water offices, water organizations, and other resources.
Tailings Info - a website about mine tailings
Empire Fagan Coalition - Information on the Davidson Canyon mining proposal by Cal-Portland
Hilton Ranch Road Community Organization
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!
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
(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)
Don't Waste Arizona, Rosemont Mine would Poison and Dry Southern Arizona
The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
New York Times article on The Story of Stuff, May 10, 2009
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
Rosemont Mine simulation, SSSR, on YouTube
Artist's simulation on what the Rosemont Mine may look like, based on their mining plan
Rosemont Mine Realities, with Fred Tahse and Dan Meyer, SSSR, on YouTube
Rosemont Mine Geology, narrated by Fred Tahse, SSSR, on YouTube
Rosemont Copper in Arizona on Vimeo, by Adam Klawonn, ZonieReport.com
Morenci Open Pit Copper Mine, Arizona, on YouTube
Ex-miner speaks out against Rosemont Copper Mine, July 5, 2008, on YouTube
Comments of water resources impacts from the proposed Rosemont Mine, on YouTube, 2008
Mining the New American West, National Geographic, Feb. 2008
Video: Lou Dobbs on the 1872 Mining Law and Uranium Mining at the Grand Canyon, May 8, 2009
Protectors of the Santa Rita Mountains
The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
New York Times article on The Story of Stuff, May 10, 2009
TAILINGS SPILL VIDEO
"Flood at Stava Dam" featured in the "National Geographic:Seconds From Disaster" series. The hour-long film includes information very well presented about 1985 spill including: human impact of the spill, failure mechanisms, operation and management failures, among other aspects and includes graphic representations of the dam failure mechanism and the flood flowing through the impact valley in the northern Italy.
The NG webpage for the video is: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/seconds-from-disaster/1194/Overview
The video can be viewed at: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/educational/watch/v7067797K35Nexec#
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 10, 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.
Augusta's latest PR campaign, mailed throughout Eastern Pima County and Santa Cruz County, Sept. 2009
It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live
-Dalai Lama
