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Government sites
Federal
Old
Forest
Service Rosemont website
NEW
Forest Service Rosemont website much better site with a lot of new
information
NEPA
official website Everything you wanted to know about NEPA, including the
citizens guide to the NEPA process.
Considering
Cumulative Effects under the National Environment Policy Act
Environmental
Protection Agency website
U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Environment Conservation Online System
OUR
NATIONAL FORESTS AT RISK: THE 1872 MINING LAW AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SANTA RITA
MOUNTAINS OF ARIZONA - Gabrielle Giffords and Raul Grijalva statements to
congress
Geo
Communicator interactive mapping sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S.
Forest Service, mining claims, click
here for basic instructions
Bureau
of Land Management
Congress
Org - useful for looking up congressional members and issues
State
Arizona
Department of Environmental Quality website
Arizona
Revised Statutes - Access to all Arizona Revised Statutes, can search
all statutes for keywords.
Arizona
Revised Statues Title
11 - counties
Arizona
Revised Statutes Title 11 - Chapter
6, ASR 11-830 Restriction on regulation; exceptions; aggregate mining
regulation; definitions. This is Arizona's answer to county zoning and
ordinances. It exempts mines greater than 5 acres from following the
county rules. I think its time to change this, or if the state won't then
they need responsible regulations in place. Mines can use as much water as
they want in Arizona!
Arizona
Revised Statutes Title
27 - Minerals, Oil and gas - Arizona statutes on mining
Arizona
Department of Transportation - Highway 83 safety must be addressed, please
send concerns to the ADOT.
County
Pima
County MapGuide maps - An excellent site to research land ownership, tax
records, permits, tax records. click
for instructions
Pima
County Assessors office - another way to get at the County tax records to
see how little Augusta/Rosemont pays in property taxes.
Pima
County Department of Environmental Quality
Pima county Outdoor lighting
code
Wildlife Safety Research
US
Federal Highway Administration Wildlife Vehicle Collision Reduction Study:
Report to Congress
Water
and wastewater solutions for bird control Other
products from Coastal netting to protect birds U.S.
Fish and wildlife service information on wastewater containment issues U.S.
Fish and wildlife list of species and status in Pima County
Acts
and Laws
Southern
Arizona Public Lands Act of 2007, bill to withdraw Forest Service lands in
Southern Arizona from mineral entry, from Congressman Grijalva
NEPA
official website a wealth of information and NEPA case law and litigation
information
NEPA Case law studies
The
Federal Land policy and management act of 1976
National
oceanic and atmospheric administration site (list of relevant environmental
laws and acts with great descriptions of their purpose and scope)
Cornell
University Law school U.S. Code collection title 30 - Mineral lands and mining
Money Research
Open
secrets organization is full of information on campaign finance, who
donates what to whom, by zip code, industry.
Copper
research, including copper production
copper
development center oceana (Austrailia) packed with information
World
Copper production and use with estimates for 2008
Copper
price graphs - great site for current and historical copper price charts
Lighting
research
Fred
Lawrence Whipple Observatory website - contains information on light
pollution in the area, concerns over Rosemont are expressed.
Traffic Research ADOT
Corridor Management Plan published in 2003
Presentation
prepared by Hilton Ranch Rd about highway 83 safety and hazards
National
Cooperative Highway Research Program - chip seal best practices
Highway
Capacity Manual chapter 20 Two Lane Rural roads
HCM2000 Chapter 20, Two lane Rural Highways
analysis - white paper
Texas
Department of Transportation Analysis of Emulsion and Hot Asphalt Cement
Chip Seal Performance
US
Federal Highway Administration Wildlife Vehicle Collision Reduction Study:
Report to Congress
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General mining and
mining technology
research
Mine claim types
and definitions - defines patented and non patented mining claims
Tailings
info, all about tailings and disposal information
Examination of Revegetation Methodologies for Dry Stack
Tailings in Northern Environments
Arizona
Geology Blogspot - Blog of the state geologists of Arizona
Infomine
- mining intelligence and Technology. full of information, but much only
available to subscribers.
The
mining news organization contains news on mining impacts from communities
and
activists worldwide
Copper
extraction techniques by Wikipidia
IN-SITU mining
studies
Copper
Org article on BHP florence copper mine using in-situ mining technology
Princeton
university article on mining technology including in-situ
Arizona
mining update from 1997 talks about in-situ mining
Elmhurst
education course about ASARCO mining operations in Arizona
High
County news is the love of the west destroying Chile?
Air
quality Research
How
can Mine tailings affect your health? interesting information on mine
tailings and how they negatively affect our health.
Water Research
Securing
sustainable water supplies in Arizona - an excellent overview of water
management strategies and regulations in arizona.
AZ
Public-Private Water Utility Ownership, A Changing
Landscape. Arizona Water
Resource Newsletter Water Resources Research Center
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences The University of Arizona,
Tucson AZ. "the Arizona Department of
Environmental Quality (ADEQ), the Arizona
Department of Water Resources (ADWR), and the Arizona
Corporation Commission (ACC) all collect and report data for different water
provider activities. ADEQ drinking water system
data are based on individual system identification numbers and system names, and
are often listed for sub-systems of a single system. The ACC, which regulates
privately owned water companies
statewide, lists private companies in its annual
reports on a consolidated basis. ADWR regulates groundwater used by water
companies only in Active Management Areas"
SAWUA (southern arizona water
users association) map of member service areas
Arizona
CAP site - everything you wanted to know about CAP water.
Predicting water quality problems at hardrock
mines, a failure of science, oversight, and good practice. An Earthworks
white paper summarizing and analyzing the groundbreaking studies by Ann Maest,
PHD and Jim Kuuipers, P.E. Click
Here to read the actual study report
Arizona
Cap site excess water purchases Augusta 15,000 acre feet 2007,
Rosemont 8260 so far in 2008
Arizona
department of water resources WELL RECORDS (imaged documents) find your well
number here (must download their PowerWeb viewer plug-in and use
Internet Explorer, does not work on Windows Vista Operating system)
United
States Environmental Protection Agency Enviro-mapper for water
Pima
county request for Hydrologic studies dated 9/7/2007
Pima
County "Groundwater
model of the Santa Rita Rosemont Site" prepared by Dr Tom Myers
Sonoita
crossroads organization groundwater study for NE Santa Cruz county, (the
bibliography contains a lot of groundwater study material for this area
Southwest
Hydrology - the resource for semi-arid hydrology
Water
use by power plants in the Arid Southwest.
Water
and Power: Inextricably tied to Arizona’s Growth An excellent paper
presented in 2007 by Richard Rushforth describing the massive amounts of
water used to generate electricity for the growing Arizona
population. I wonder what the cumulative water use for the Rosemont
mine would be if the water used for their electricity were added into the
equation
An
interesting paper by Mark Frank Director, Phoenix Active Management Area,
Arizona Department of Water Resources, 500 N. Third Street, Phoenix, Arizona
85004 "In 1980 the Arizona Department of Water Resources (Department)
was established to administer provisions set forth in the Groundwater Management
Act. The Groundwater Code gives the Department broad authority over state water
concerns and requires the development of five groundwater management plans that
are progressively more stringent for each of the State's five active management
areas (AMA). Each management plan is comprised of three primary components: 1)
mandatory water conservation requirements for agricultural, municipal, and
industrial groundwater users and groundwater distribution systems; 2) a
groundwater quality assessment and management program; and 3) a water supply
augmentation and reuse program."
California
Coastal Commission on desalination plants
Recently Fico
and ANC announced a joint effort to extend the current CAP pipeline to
meet the needs of the water companies.
A
world without water - great documentary about Lake mead and the
current drought
Augusta Resources sites
Augusta
Resources corporate website - Augusta Resources official website
Rosemont
Mine website - Rosemont mine official website
Rosemont
Survey Report - this is the survey that says 64.5% of the people are for the
mine. Pay special attention to the way the survey was conducted.
Rosemont promises the world, and assuming everything they said was true and
accurate the person being surveyed was asked if they would be favorable to the
mine. What a joke!
Augusta Resources Executive Research
Reuters
Corporate information on Augusta Resources - great corporate information
including ownership and executive salaries and biographies.
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