# GOOD VIBES

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0301660
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Quartz, Crystal
- **Location:** Saline, AR
- **Operator:** C & N Quartz Mine
- **Controller:** Neal  Smith
- **Public source rows linked:** 69
- **Source coverage:** 9 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Neal  Smith (M09900) → C & N Quartz Mine (L12943) → GOOD VIBES (0301660)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Robert N Gardner → Newton Crystals:** 1989-07-01 through 1992-11-11; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301660; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Neal  Smith → C & N Quartz Mine:** 1992-11-12 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0301660; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 7 violation rows across the full record; 2 carry an S&S flag and $511 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 0 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 — 7 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 7 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 0 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 10 inspection events and 44 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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 56.9300 — Berms or guardrails.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9300
- **30 CFR 56.4402 — Safety can use.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4402
- **30 CFR 56.3200 — Correction of hazardous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-B/section-56.3200

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2007-06-01 through 2007-06-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 7 rows; 2001-02-22 through 2005-12-23; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 7 rows; 2002-08-15 through 2002-08-15; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1989-07-01 through 1992-11-12; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 10 rows; 2001-02-22 through 2006-01-05; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 27 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 7 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 7 rows; 2001-02-22 through 2005-12-23; 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/good-vibes-0301660`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/good-vibes-0301660`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0301660/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0301660/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0301660/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`