Links

Websites
Online Videos and other media
Documents


Websites

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

Arizona Highway 83 website

Kathiesbirds Blog on the Rosemont Mine

Water News, Special Edition on Drought

U.S. EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
T
he 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!

Murray Bolesta photos

 

Friends of Madera Canyon

Santa Cruz Valley.com website

Friends of the Desert Newsletter, a project of the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection

Sierra Club, Arizona

Sierra Club, Arizona, Legislative Updates

Sky Island Alliance

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

 

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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, Arizona Illustrated, Gayle Hartmann (SSSR President) and Rod Pace (Rosemont Copper) discuss the Rosemont Mine, July 24, 2009

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

More from Vail...

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

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-Dalai Lama


      

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