Import / Export Projects - Consolidating Two Separate Aperture Libraries

Question
How do I export projects that contain ONLY the referenced images from other projects? So as to avoid importing duplicate versions of the original raw file.
For example on hard dive 1 I have projects called
1. Project Summer (contain raw images)
2. Project Winter (contain raw images)
3. Project Best Shots - Contains images that are moved from both Summer & Winter ...
Issue
• When I export project Best shots...it exports raw images...
• Exporting and importing referenced images is causing me to have duplicate triplicates, etc...etc... of the original image from project 1 summer when I import to a new project
What I want?
• I only want it to export the referrenced images....so Im not getting duplicate images
Background
• All Images are all imported into Aperture (I am not using referenced files)
• I am currently using Aperture 2.1.2 and have two 500 GB hard drives with two completely separate projects.
What I am trying to do
I would like to consolidate the two separate Aperture files onto one larger hard drive and keep all my organization and sub organization.

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