Silver Wheaton Corporation (SLW) has announced announce that it has agreed to acquire an amount equal to 100% of the life of mine silver and gold production from Augusta Resource Corporation’s (TSX, NYSE Amex: AZC) Rosemont Copper Project located in Pima County, Arizona. Rosemont is forecast to be a low-cost, long-life and large-scale copper-molybdenum-silver project that could account for approximately 10% of US copper output once in production, projected by 2012, another good move in our humble opinion (read more…)