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Lamb on the Run: Collect all those stashed pennies, use them to save Rosemont from mining

By Jim Lamb
Published: Thursday, February 8, 2007 10:20 PM MST


Tubac couple Nancy Valentine and Hugh Holub have a novel idea to stop development of a copper mine at Rosemont east of Green Valley…

…Have everyone clean out their drawers looking for stashes of copper pennies and mail them to Augusta Resource Corp…If it gets enough maybe it would go away…

…Or another suggestion, send them to Pima County, which could use the money to buy the Rosemont property…

“The whole point of the copper mine in Rosemont Valley is to dig up the countryside for copper,” Nancy and Hugh wrote…

…Last December, the U.S. Mint reported copper prices have risen more than 180 percent since mid-2003, meaning “the modern penny (made after 1982) is worth 1.73 cents with production costs included”…

…Nancy and Hugh said, “13 pounds of copper are produced from every ton of ore,” so they said, “Let’s given them 13 pounds of pennies” so they won’t have to ruin a ton of the earth there…


  • More license plates seen on I-19 … “BARAQDA” … “JP4U” … “SEKN SUN” … “CATERER” (what’s for lunch?) … “SMY TOY” … “PLUS 1” … “SCOTTII” … “BREATHN” … “LAVNDR” … “CLMB2PK” … “WAVES” … “NOXIR” … “HOT GRM” … “GOLINGO” … “PUT” (and matched with the plate on the front of the vehicle it becomes “PUT PUT” …

  • Scams a lot…A GV resident said someone apparently tried to scam her in recent days, just like we reported earlier…

    …A purported relative (her nephew in the GV woman’s case) calls and says he or she needs financial help quickly because of emergency…

    …Our almost victim said she got more than a dozen calls from the persons needing help to pay for transmission work on his truck…He said he’d send a friend to pick up the money…

    …She actually withdrew $900, but continued to check…She finally talked to the nephew in Mesa…

    …The first thing next morning, she went back to the bank and re-deposited it…

  • Things to do…

    —Today’s the deadline to reserve space at the one-man play about Doc Holliday, the tuberculosis-suffering dentist, gunfighter and one of he principals at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral… Wyatt Earp, a distant descendant of famed lawman Wyatt Earp, will perform as Holliday… The event is 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 16, at the Cow Palace… The $16 registration was due by mail today, but call Irene Deaton, 398-2657 to see if the historical society will take call-in reservations…

    —The Smithsonian astronomy lecture Tuesday, Feb. 13, is “Astrophysics in the Movies: From Black Holes to E.T.”… Jeremy Perkens of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory will give the talk, 9 a.m. at the West Center… No charge…

    Jim Lamb’s a Green Valley News reporter and, he says, our foreign correspondent. Well, he does go across The Line occasionally for a story. With Jim is his faithful companion Fido.



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