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Special Report – Rosemont’s Power Play

November 25, 2013 By Investigative Media Leave a Comment

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Augusta Resource’s top officers have a history of bankruptcies, cease trade orders and stock exchange delistings

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A Sardinian gold mine unearths the deceptive business tactics of Rosemont Copper’s top executives

Filed Under: Rosemont Tagged With: Rosemont

InvestigativeMedia releases 7,000 pages of Forest Service records on proposed Rosemont copper mine

April 1, 2013 By John Dougherty 1 Comment

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InvestigativeMedia is pleased to release more than 7,000 pages of  Coronado National Forest records on the proposed Rosemont open-pit copper mine. The records were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The records include internal emails and supporting documents from January 2012 through early February providing a first-hand look at the permitting process for the proposed mile-wide, half-mile deep mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest about 35 miles southeast of Tucson.

InvestigativeMedia encourages the public and other media to analyze the information and provide feedback on this site. The goal is to encourage public-interest, cloud reporting using this site as a clearinghouse of information, feedback, comments and suggestions on additional reporting.

InvestigativeMedia will issue a series of reports based on these records and information from other sources, including the public.

The Forest Service records are in two large PDF files available here and here.

The release of records is part of InvestigativeMedia’s ongoing review of Augusta Resource Corporation’s proposed Rosemont copper mine, including the 2012 documentary Cyanide Beach.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Featured, Rosemont Tagged With: Coronado National Forest, Coronado National Forest records, Forest Service, InvestigativeMedia, Rosemont

Update: InvestigativeMEDIA releases “Rosemont’s Power Play” report and announces digital release of “Cyanide Beach”

December 18, 2012 By John Dougherty 1 Comment

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The multimedia project includes:

  • Report:  A Sardinian gold mine unearths the deceptive business tactics of Rosemont Copper’s top executives. (Click Here)
  • Timeline: The top officers of Rosemont Copper’s parent company, Augusta Resource Corporation, have a history of bankruptcies, cease trade orders and stock exchange delistings (Click Here)

The multimedia project focuses on Augusta Resource Corporation, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based speculative mining company that wants to build a massive open pit copper mine in the environmentally-sensitive Santa Rita Mountains on the Coronado National Forest 35 miles south of Tucson, AZ.

InvestigativeMEDIA reviewed thousands of pages of financial documents and conducted interviews in the United States, Canada and Italy to document the business history of Augusta’s key executives.

The probe uncovered a tangled history of cease trade orders,  an insider trading settlement agreement, stock exchange delistings, personal and corporate bankruptcies, false disclosure statements to regulators and an abandoned Sardinian gold mine that is creating serious, ongoing environmental problems.

Las Cienegas National Conservation Area

Augusta owns the Rosemont Copper Company. Rosemont is seeking government permits to build what could become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, producing 240 million pounds of copper annually for approximately 21 years.

The mile-wide, half-mile deep mine would dump waste rock and mine tailings on more than 3,000 acres of the Coronado National Forest and destroy much of a watershed that provides runoff to a rare, shallow Sonoran Desert aquifer beneath the federally-protected Las Cienegas National Conservation Area.

 

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Rosemont Tagged With: Augusta Resource Corporation, Rosemont, Rosemont Copper

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" headlines Tucson's Progressive Film Festival

October 26, 2012 By Investigative Media Leave a Comment

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“Cyanide Beach” will be shown at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Screening Room in Downtown Tucson. Producer John Dougherty will be available to answer questions about the Rosemont Copper mine project.

Filed Under: Current Investigations, Featured Tagged With: Cyanide Beach, Rosemont, Santa Rita Mountains

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