More than 10,000 comments submitted to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voice concerns about proposed open-pit mine at Juristac’s sacred tribal land.

Although the city lacks authority to deny the project, its symbolic gesture adds to a growing movement to preserve the land.

Lobbyists target county supes to push plan for mining operation on lands considered sacred by local Native Americans.

A battle is brewing between a local Native American tribe and a developer who wants to build a gravel mine just south of Gilroy.