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Rosemont Copper Company offers tours to all that want to see the advancement of the copper mine planned for the land area just a short distance outside of Tucson.  You will see livestock eating, in-depth plans of how the mine is going to be developed with minimum impact on the mountains surrounding beauty.

It is planned for Rosemont Copper to make the most progressive and efficient metal-producing field-operations in the world at this location.  They will set new environmental standards for the resource care, water quality and land reestablishment which will set the criteria for the balance of the countries to adhere to when they are producing the necessary natural resources to make the world to function.

What an chance for everyone to discover and see what this development is offering the world right here in Tucson! Just book a tour, visit with the people working in the mine environment and you will experience that there is a sincere desire to reclaim the land in a lovely manner rather than unattractive ugly piles of rock waste.

To assist in the new growth revegetation and reclamation desire effort, Rosemont Copper has established a 30,000 acre working cattle ranch about 30 miles south of Tucson, AZ. The ranch operation is professionally overseen by Tom Kay and he will control a herd of 500 to five hundred and fifty beef cattle. The Rosemont ranch will have no dairy cows. Tom has decades of ranching experience and excells at being a cowboy, working to keep the cattle, equipment and wonders all working in tip top order.  He knows that we need copper to function today but he also believes that beauty in the region needs to be retained.  The operational plans of the company accomplish this with their vision, approach, plans and promises.

Rosemont will be using the most current in natural, non-confined ranching techniques. Rosemont livestock will be raised in native environmentally friendly manner with no hormones, no antibiotics and they will be completely range fed.

The revegetation has been studied with the assistance of the University Of Arizona College Of Natural Resources.  They were performed to identify the optimum plant species for the revegetation following the mining operation.  The twenty-nine seeds selected have a resilient and productive system and are currently available from large-scale commercial seed vendors and meet the NRCS’s ecological site description.

The ranching operations are necessary to assist in the process of growing and reproducing the seeds.  Since seeds do better if incorporated into the soil so they don’t dry out in our desert heat or blow away in our wind so the cattle hooves can push the seed into the soil.  The eating of the cattle creates textured soil which helps capture water and nutrients.

Not only that but the eating helps to stimulate the development not only with them grazing but also by stomping weeds and eating weed flowers.  Of course the manure adds benefits of fertilizing the land which helps even in the poor growth areas where an abundance of manure increases microorganisms and ads to the soil fertility.

Rosemont Copper Mine has been actively assisting a number of local organizations with their fundraising events.  They have assisted in a number of activities such as supplying not only financial assistance but also providing the cow for the Cienega Rotary “Cow Pie Bingo” event where funds contribute in both local and international projects.

Rosemont Copper hosts free weekly tours of the site that include visits to the geology exploration camp, the historic mining areas, the old quarry, and the weather station. Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9 to noon.  This tour will be not only a wonderful opportunity to see the Arizona Mountains and desert but also to learn about the value of copper to our development.  Without copper we probably would not have electricity or would not have a space program.  It’s necessary to mine this mineral in the most environmentally friendly operation possible and Rosemont Copper Mine is working toward doing this and setting the standard for the rest of the world!

You can arrange for your Rosemont Copper Mine tour by calling Phone: (520) 343-1730 or by going to the ad on www.arizonabeautiful.com and going to the Tucson attractions region.

The mine is located approximately 30 miles southeast of Tucson, Arizona.