The May 12 ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that blocks Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals from dumping waste rock and tailings from its proposed Rosemont Mine on Coronado National Forest land is a major victory for conservation groups and for preservation of sacred Native American sites. Hudbay’s plans to construct a mile-wide, half-mile deep open-pit copper mine in the Rosemont Valley in the eastern side of the Santa Rita Mountains, 35 miles southeast of Tucson, will not move forward, for the time being...