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.

The complaint is the second lawsuit to declare that project in northern San Benito County would harm cultural resources and threaten the environment.

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.