Nederland, Colorado A public record kept by the Foundation

The Cross-Caribou mine.

We keep Nederland's record of what happens at the Cross-Caribou Mines — the filings, the meeting dates, the deadlines to comment, and the answers residents get when they ask.

Current notices

Posted as soon as each date is confirmed

  • Next public meeting

    Date to be posted here as soon as it is set.

    Location, agenda, and how to speak will be listed with it.

  • Next comment deadline

    No open comment period at this time.

    Comments received after a deadline cannot be considered.

  • Most recent filing

    Document library opening with the site.

    Each filing gets a plain summary of what it changes.

01 What the Foundation does

Every figure on this site carries its source. Where we have none, the line is left blank.

  • Meetings, hearings, and comment deadlines

    Public process only works if people know when it is happening. We track the meetings, the hearings, and the dates by which a written comment has to be filed, and the office it has to be filed with.

    See the calendar →
  • Ask a question, then read the answer

    Send us a question or a concern about the mine. We take it to ACRG or to the regulator, and we post what comes back — including the times we get no answer at all. Over time these accumulate into a record of what was asked and what was answered.

    Ask a question →
  • Monitoring Data

    Water, air, and noise readings published with their sample dates, units, and collection method, downloadable in full. This section is built and empty. We will not put a number on this page until there is a real sample behind it.

    See what is planned →

The binding

Where the name comes from.

American Clean Resources Group is a shelf of separate volumes. Projects, sites, permits, people, each with a history of its own and none of them the whole story. The Cross-Caribou Promise is the binding: the thread meant to hold those volumes together, and the first thing to fail if it is made badly.

Some of the pages were written long before the company arrived. By the miners who worked these hills for a century, by the families who chose this valley, and by a town that has earned the right to ask hard questions and expect an answer to them.

The Foundation exists to check the stitching. We publish what has been promised, what has been measured, and what has been delivered, and we record the distance between them.


Done carelessly, it comes apart.
Done honestly, it holds.

A wall of open books laid edge to edge, pages facing out.

Illustration for the Foundation's name. Not a photograph of the Cross-Caribou Mines or of any ACRG site.

Shot needed: the Cross-Caribou portal and waste rock area from the access road, mid-morning, wide. Minimum 2400×1800px, landscape.

02 The mine

A district worked since the 1860s.

The Cross-Caribou Mines sit above Nederland in the Caribou mining district, worked in stages since the nineteenth century and quiet for long stretches since. What was left behind, what is permitted now, and what is proposed next are three different questions, and residents are usually handed the answer to one of them.

The Record page separates them: the history, the permits currently in force, the filings as they are submitted, and a dated timeline of what has actually happened.

Open the record

Newsroom

03 Latest

This list holds one item because one item is what we can source. It fills in as filings are made, meetings are held, and questions are answered.

04 Questions

Ask a question about the mine.

Water, traffic, noise, dust, blasting, jobs, tailings, who profits. Send it and we will chase the answer. Questions of general interest are published with the reply, or with a note that no reply came.

Used to send you the answer. Not published, not shared.