Hudbay makes copper discovery near Rosemont in Arizona
Hudbay makes copper discovery near Rosemont in Arizona Looking over Hudbay's Copper World land package. Credit: Hudbay Minerals. When Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) acquired Augusta Resources in September 2014 the key objective was to advance its Rosemont copper project, which if put into production will be one of the largest copper mines in the United States. But the acquisition also brought with it a package of patented mining claims on private land within 7 km of the open-pit project, which held about 20 small pick and shovel underground mines that had operated between the mid-1800...