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Cyanide Beach Synopsis

November 30, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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InvestigativeMEDIA’s 24-minute video reveals the deceptive business tactics of Augusta Resource Corporation’s top executives when they operated a gold mine in Sardinia, Italy between 2003 and 2007.

Augusta Resource owns the Rosemont Copper Company, which is seeking government permits to build a mile-wide, half-mile deep copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest southeast of Tucson. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Featured Tagged With: Augusta Chairman Richard Warke, Augusta Resource, board, copper, Resource, Sardinia, Sardinian, Sargold Resource Corporation, Stock

Forest Service says it will not issue Rosemont copper permit in 2012

November 20, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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Coronado National Forest Supervisor Jim Upchurch announced Friday that the Forest Service will not issue a Final Environmental Impact statement or Record of Decision for the proposed Rosemont copper mine by the end of the year.

Augusta Resource Corporation, the Vancouver, B.C.-based junior mining company promoting the Rosemont project, has been telling investors and regulators that it expected the Forest Service to release the FEIS and ROD by the end of 2012, with construction to begin early next year. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Augusta Resource, Environmental Impact Statement, Forest Service, Rosemont

Cyanide Beach advertising campaign begins to promote Oct. 14 and 21 television broadcast

October 9, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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A radio, television and print advertising campaign began today to promote the broadcast of Cyanide Beach on Tucson’s ABC affiliate KGUN-9 at 4 p.m. on Oct. 14 and 21.

The campaign includes a half-page advertisement in the Arizona Daily Star, radio promotions and 40, 15-second television spots on KGUN.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Featured Tagged With: Augusta Resource, Cyanide Beach, Rosemont

Read Dougherty’s column in Green Valley News on Augusta Resource executives’ history of deception

September 17, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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Augusta Resource Corp. CEO Gil Clausen’s Aug. 23 statement in response to InvestigativeMEDIA’s documentary “Cyanide Beach” is a clumsy attempt to deflect public attention from the truth (‘Cyanide Beach’: Rosemont responds,” Sept. 9. Page A7).

The facts are simple as they are ugly.

Read the rest of InvestigativeMEDIA founder John Dougherty’s September 15 column in the Green Valley News by clicking here.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont Tagged With: Augusta Resource, Augusta Resource Corp., Green Valley News, Read Dougherty

Greenwire reports on Rosemont Copper investigation

September 12, 2012 By John Dougherty Leave a Comment

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Greenwire, the leading information source for comprehensive, objective, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy, politics and markets, published a story last week on InvestigativeMEDIA and Rosemont Copper Company.

Former journalist probes company in bid to stop Ariz. copper mine

Manuel Quinones, E&E reporter

Published: Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Foes of a proposed copper mine near Tucson, Ariz., have hired a former journalist to scour records on the mining company’s finances, securities filings and executives in search of damaging information that might halt the project.

John Dougherty, founder of InvestigativeMEDIA LLC and a former reporter for Ohio’s Dayton Daily News and the Phoenix New Times, said he’s looking into the developer, Rosemont Copper Co., and its parent, Augusta Resource Corp., and hoping to raise questions about a planned open-pit mine in the Santa Rita Mountains.

“I think they are probably cooked,” Dougherty said of the mining company’s permitting and financial hurdles. “They’re in a bind.”

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Filed Under: Current Investigations, Featured Tagged With: Augusta Resource, Cyanide Beach, Greenwire, Rosemont

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