Who’s defending Rosemont Mine / Coronado?
1 case live in federal court over this place, filed 2024National forest in Arizona, 1.78M acres, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, designated in 1902.
The defenders
Nobody has claimed this fight yet
No group in our directory carries Rosemont Mine / Coronado in its work yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting: if you know the group that belongs here, tell us and our editors will look at it.
11 more groups also work this ground
On the ground in Arizona
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The situation
What’s happening to Rosemont Mine / Coronado
The Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson are home to jaguars, ocelots, and species found nowhere else in the United States. The proposed Rosemont copper mine would destroy a mountain ridgeline, bury streams under billions of tons of waste rock, and drain the aquifer Tucson depends on. All for a foreign company’s profit margin.
- 1902Coronado National Forest established
- 2019Final EIS issued for Rosemont Mine
- 2022Court vacates mine approval
- 2025Mine proponents seek new approval pathway
Source: USFS · February 15, 2025
No public comment window is open on Rosemont Mine / Coronado right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.
In the courts
The cases over this place
The dockets we track that name Rosemont Mine / Coronado directly. Active first.
Your move
How to stand for Rosemont Mine / Coronado
Rosemont Mine / Coronado has defenders. It needs more.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.