Canadian company Augusta Resource, also known as Rosemont Copper, plans to excavate 550 million tons of ore annually of copper, molybdenum and silver in Arizona.
In the middle of endangered jaguar habitat, the company plans to blast a 6,000 to 6,500-foot-wide and 1,800 to 2,900-foot-deep hole in the ground.
The Rosemont Mine would also unearth 1,228 million tons of waste rock per year, over its estimated 20-year life span.
The jaguar has been on the Endangered Species list for 15- since 1997. Although poaching is no longer the primary threat, the population has not recovered. The main problem for the jaguar is habitat loss and fragmentation.
Do not permit mining operations in the jaguar's critical habitat zone- it will push the big cat, (critical to Arizona's ecosystem), closer to extinction.
SOURCE: http://www.hcn.org/hcn/blogs/range/jaguar-versus-the-copper-mine
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Canadian company Augusta Resource, also known as Rosemont Copper, plans to excavate 550 million tons of ore annually of copper, molybdenum and silver in Arizona.
In the middle of endangered jaguar habitat, the company plans to blast a 6,000 to 6,500-foot-wide and 1,800 to 2,900-foot-deep hole in the ground.
The Rosemont Mine would also unearth 1,228 million tons of waste rock per year, over its estimated 20-year life span.
The jaguar has been on the Endangered Species list for 15- since 1997. Although poaching is no longer the primary threat, the population has not recovered. The main problem for the jaguar is habitat loss and fragmentation.
Do not permit mining operations in the jaguar's critical habitat zone- it will push the big cat, (critical to Arizona's ecosystem), closer to extinction.
