Rosemont Copper Co. asks judge to junk or amend ruling that stopped mine

An imagining of what the proposed Rosemont Copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains southeast of Tucson, with its half-mile-deep open pit, would look like from the air.
/Courtesy of Rosemont Copper

By Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star  

The company proposing to build the Rosemont Mine wants a federal judge to toss out or at least change key parts of his recent ruling that stopped work on the $1.9 billion project.

Rosemont Copper Co., in what it says is its first step toward appealing the July 31 ruling, is asking U.S. District Judge James Soto to vacate the ruling that prevented mine construction or to “alter or amend” it.

The company says Soto ruled that Rosemont Copper lacked valid mining claims on more than 2,400 acres of public land where it wants to dump waste rock and tailings.

Because Soto’s decision focused so heavily on mining claims as regulated by the 1872 Mining Law, the company wants the decision vacated on what it says are jurisdictional issues — it says opponents lack standing to sue on the issues that led to his decision.

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