# Carlota Copper Company

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0202653
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Copper Ore NEC
- **Location:** Gila, AZ
- **Operator:** Carlota Copper Company
- **Controller:** KGHM Polska Miedz S A
- **Public source rows linked:** 6,402
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**KGHM Polska Miedz S A (0103757) → Carlota Copper Company (L14615) → Carlota Copper Company (0202653)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Cambior Inc → Carlota Copper Company:** 1996-02-01 through 2005-12-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 0202653; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Quadra Mining Ltd → Carlota Copper Company:** 2005-12-21 through 2012-03-20; derived from co-tenure at mine 0202653; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **KGHM Polska Miedz S A → Carlota Copper Company:** 2012-03-21 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0202653; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 7
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 52 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 795 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 26 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 238 violation rows across the full record; 40 carry an S&S flag and $80,721 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 55 samples:** Occupational health samples 55 personal. 6 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 61 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 23 contested-violation rows, 23 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 15 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 30 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 — 14 since 2021:** Inspections 71 inspection events and 2K 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 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12018
- **30 CFR 56.14132 — Horns and backup alarms.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14132
- **30 CFR 56.14103 — Operators stations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14103
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 52 rows; 2007-06-11 through 2024-12-11; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2012-08-07 through 2012-08-07; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 231 rows; 2007-12-07 through 2026-09-01; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 23 rows; 2009-02-20 through 2015-02-18; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 15 rows; 2017-06-02 through 2017-08-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 23 rows; 2008-02-06 through 2014-01-08; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 4,785 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 856 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1996-02-01 through 1996-02-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 71 rows; 2001-03-21 through 2026-08-30; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 42 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:** 55 rows; 2009-07-20 through 2024-08-06; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 238 rows; 2007-12-07 through 2026-09-01; 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/carlota-copper-company-0202653`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/carlota-copper-company-0202653`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0202653/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0202653/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0202653/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`