By Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star
The discovery of an ocelot in the vicinity of the proposed Rosemont Mine site, combined with other endangered-species issues, means more delay for the open-pit copper project.
The male ocelot was photographed there twice: on May 14 and April 8, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ocelot was roaming in a 145,000-acre area in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson where the Forest Service is studying the mine’s impacts.