# Lava Cap Mine / Elder-Newmont
> **Judicial** · FY2008 · — · —
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `600089615`
- **Case Number:** 09-2008-2505
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** —
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- Elder Development, Inc. (complaint)
- Newmont Mining Capital Limited (complaint) (settlement)
- Newmont Mining Corp of Canada Ltd (complaint) (settlement)
- Stephen Elder (complaint)
- Sterling Centrecorp Inc. (complaint)
## Summary

This Referral requests that a civil action be filed pursuant to Section 107(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9607(a), as amended, to recover past and future response costs incurred or to be incurred by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in responding to the Lava Cap Mine Superfund Site (“Site”) located in Nevada County, California.  EPA seeks this relief from:  1) Stephen P. Elder, as a current owner of the Site; 2) Elder Development, Inc. ( EDI ), Mr. Elder's private company, which also is a current owner of the Site; and 3) Sterling Centrecorp Inc. ( Sterling ), a Canadian corporation, as the successor to the Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation, a former owner and operator of the Site.

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