# Bates-Hunter Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0504166
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Gilpin, CO
- **Operator:** BH Mining Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Yvel Family LLC; Pistos LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 444
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Yvel Family LLC; Pistos LLC (0139881) → BH Mining Company, LLC (0156493) → Bates-Hunter Mine (0504166)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **George E.  Otten → Central City Consolidated Mining Company:** 1986-05-01 through 2018-03-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504166; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Yvel Family LLC et al → BH Mining Company, LLC:** 2018-04-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504166; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pistos LLC et al → BH Mining Company, LLC:** 2018-04-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504166; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 1 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 334 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 14 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 54 violation rows across the full record; 10 carry an S&S flag and $11,819 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 personal. 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 3K employee hours and 16 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 — 27 since 2021:** Inspections 49 inspection events and 828 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 57.12019 — Access to stationary electrical equipment or switchgear.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12019
- **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 57.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4201
- **30 CFR 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **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 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 57.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12004
- **30 CFR 57.16005 — Securing gas cylinders.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-O/section-57.16005
- **30 CFR 57.4101 — Warning signs.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4101
- **30 CFR 57.14105 — Procedures during repairs or maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14105

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2006-09-16 through 2021-10-06; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-06-20 through 2023-06-20; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 53 rows; 2006-05-18 through 2026-08-21; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2025-01-21 through 2025-01-21; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 109 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1986-05-01 through 2018-04-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 49 rows; 2006-05-18 through 2026-08-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 103 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 31 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; 2020-01-23 through 2020-01-23; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 54 rows; 2006-05-18 through 2026-08-21; 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/bates-hunter-mine-0504166`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/bates-hunter-mine-0504166`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0504166/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0504166/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0504166/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`