If you don’t already have tickets to tomorrow night’s screening of investigative reporter John Dougherty’s Cyanide Beach, you’re out of luck: There are no more tickets left to the 23-minute film about the environmental disaster left behind from an Italian gold mine, which was operated by some of the key players with Augusta Resource Corp., the parent company of Rosemont Copper, which plans on opening a massive open-pit in the Santa Rita Mountains.

But if you’d still like to see the film, Dougherty has scheduled a second showing at 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 27, at the Crossroads Festival theater at Grant and Swan roads. Here’s how you get a free ticket.

From Dougherty’s InvestigativeMEDIA’s website:

The same Canadian mining speculators that are now seeking government permits to blast a mile-wide, half-mile deep hole in the Santa Rita Mountains and dump waste rock and mine tailings on more than 3,000 acres of the Coronado National Forest once owned and operated an open-pit gold mine in Sardinia.

What happened near the iconic Sardinian farming town of Furtei provides crucial insight into what could happen here, in southern Arizona.

InvestigativeMEDIA, LLC’s 23-minute video documentary “Cyanide Beach” tells an important and timely story that anyone interested in the Rosemont copper mine project needs to know.

Tony Davis at the Arizona Daily Star has more on the film.

This article appears in Aug 16-22, 2012.

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6 replies on “A Rosemont Warning”

  1. I find it absolutely despicable the Tucson Weekly goes to such lengths to kill a mining project that will be good for Arizona and its people. The sponsors of this so-called expose are so deeply invested in the defeat of the Rosemont project that one has to wonder why.
    The pecan growers pay minimum wage to most, and it is largely sessional work. Copper mines pay four times more for year-round work and develop skills in the employees that are transferable to a number of industries.
    I for one have faith in the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to believe that they can assure southern Arizona of well operated mine.
    Stop exporting Arizona’s mining jobs and tax revenue to Latin America and central Africa!

  2. Bisbee boy, you couldn’t find your genitals in a fully-lit room with a Penthouse and an anatomy chart if you actually have to wonder why anyone would be deeply invested in killing a project proposed by one of the worst mining polluters on the planet. But then, you’re dumb enough to believe that the ADEQ actually places environmental concerns at the fore, judging by your post.

    Stop digging in people’s backyards, poisoning them and draining their watersheds in the process, and start concentrating on the abundance of minerals in space, where we don’t have to worry about fouling our nest any further.

  3. Bisbee Boy you need to look at the history of mining in Arizona if you think we want those jobs here. The copper mines in Morenci and San Manuel are closed because the price of copper dropped so low they were no longer profitable. Asarco had a love/hate relationship with miners for the past 40 years until it finally filed for bankruptcy. Now you have a job – now you don’t over and over again based on the current price of copper. Mines have put local folks in the unemployment line more consistently than any other industry in Pima County. 400 sometime jobs in not worth risking our water supply and chewing up our already overburdened county budget to provide infrastructure for a mine that will leave a big hole in the ground and ship their product and profit off shore.

  4. The Morenci mine is closed? That’s news to me. It’s the largest copper producer in the U.S., producing 307,100 short tons of copper in 2011.

  6. Thanks for the list of supporters Wise-Guy, I’ll make sure Boycott them as much as possible.

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