# San Manuel Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0200151
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Copper Ore NEC
- **Location:** Pinal, AZ
- **Operator:** BHP Copper Inc
- **Controller:** BHP Billiton
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,953
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**BHP Billiton (C11406) → BHP Copper Inc (L14403) → San Manuel Mine (0200151)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Newmont Corporation → Magma Copper Company:** 1950-01-01 through 1987-03-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 0200151; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Magma Copper Company → Magma Copper Company:** 1987-03-30 through 1996-02-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 0200151; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd → BHP Copper Inc:** 1996-02-22 through 2012-08-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 0200151; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **BHP Billiton → BHP Copper Inc:** 2012-08-23 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0200151; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 11
- Interval anomalies: 0
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 17 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 15 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 106 violation rows across the full record; 26 carry an S&S flag and $18,812 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 personal. 1 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 0 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 5K employee hours and 11 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 65 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 20 contested-violation rows, 21 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 24 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 10 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 36 inspection events and 1K published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (6 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12032
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **30 CFR 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 17 rows; 2000-06-28 through 2006-05-16; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2008-02-07 through 2008-02-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 102 rows; 2000-12-12 through 2007-06-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 21 rows; 2001-11-27 through 2006-07-12; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 24 rows; 2001-01-11 through 2004-08-05; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 20 rows; 2005-01-21 through 2005-05-03; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,234 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 257 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1996-02-22; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 36 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2008-01-25; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 109 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 4 rows; 2005-03-03 through 2005-03-03; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 106 rows; 2000-12-12 through 2007-06-05; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/san-manuel-mine-0200151`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/san-manuel-mine-0200151`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0200151/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0200151/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0200151/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`