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Ashley Chancellor: East Boulder mine job losses shrink Park County's tax allocation, permits await bond approval
Summary
Clark County heard a 2026 mine-impact report for the East Boulder mine showing total employees fell to 393 from 574 and Park County residents at the mine dropped to 94 (from 128), reducing Park County’s allocation of metal-mines license tax revenue from 21.33% to 20.71%; permits for a tailings expansion are permitted but bond approval is still pending.
Ashley Chancellor, an environmental compliance specialist, told the Clark County Commission on May 7 that the East Boulder mine reported 393 total employees across its sites this year, down from 574 last year, and that 94 employees live in Park County, down from 128.
That drop trimmed Park County’s share of the 2026 annual allocation for the metal-mines license tax from 21.33% to 20.71, Chancellor said. "We're reporting 393 total employees at our mine sites," she said, adding that "about 94 of those employees live and reside in within Park County." The figures were presented in Appendix A of the county's mine-impact materials.
Why it matters: allocations of metal-mines license tax revenue are computed in part on where mine employees reside; a smaller resident count slightly reduces the…
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