# New Elk Prep Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 0504461
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Las Animas, CO
- **Operator:** New Elk Coal Company LLC
- **Controller:** Allegiance Coal LTD
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,808
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Allegiance Coal LTD (0159821) → New Elk Coal Company LLC (0071504) → New Elk Prep Plant (0504461)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Montana Power Company → Basin Resources Inc:** 1991-06-01 through 1997-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Erik  Addington et al → Picketwire Processing LLC:** 1997-06-01 through 2006-05-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **A Bruce  Addington et al → Picketwire Processing LLC:** 1997-06-01 through 2006-05-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Westmoreland Coal Company → Basin Resources Inc:** 2004-10-25 through 1997-05-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Wayne  Coverdale et al → New Elk Coal Company LLC:** 2006-05-05 through 2009-06-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **John  McCulloch et al → New Elk Coal Company LLC:** 2006-05-05 through 2009-06-09; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Cline Mining Corporation et al → New Elk Coal Company LLC:** 2009-06-10 through 2020-10-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Allegiance Coal LTD → New Elk Coal Company LLC:** 2020-10-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 0504461; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 8
- Typed edges: 17
- Interval anomalies: 1
- 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 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 30 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 33 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 114 violation rows across the full record; 41 carry an S&S flag and $100,597 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 60 samples:** Occupational health samples 46 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 13 noise. 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 14K employee hours and 32 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 11 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 3 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 5 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 — 7 since 2021:** Inspections 66 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 77.1104 — Accumulations of combustible materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1104
- **30 CFR 77.400 — Mechanical equipment guards.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.400
- **30 CFR 77.205 — Travelways at surface installations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.205
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.410 — Mobile equipment; automatic warning devices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-E/section-77.410
- **30 CFR 48.28 — Annual refresher training of miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.28
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904
- **30 CFR 77.1103 — Flammable liquids; storage.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1103
- **30 CFR 77.202 — Dust accumulations in surface installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.202
- **30 CFR 77.1110 — Examination and maintenance of firefighting equipment.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-L/section-77.1110

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2010-10-11 through 2022-12-13; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2023-04-01 through 2023-04-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 116 rows; 2001-12-10 through 2023-01-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 3 rows; 2014-06-16 through 2022-05-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 46 rows; 2001-12-12 through 2023-03-27; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 5 rows; 2023-03-23 through 2023-03-23; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2011-07-08 through 2021-09-13; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 1,050 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 191 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 8 rows; 1991-06-01 through 2006-05-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 66 rows; 2000-06-12 through 2023-01-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 156 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 30 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 13 rows; 2001-12-13 through 2021-09-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2021-09-13 through 2021-09-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 114 rows; 2001-12-10 through 2023-01-12; 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/new-elk-prep-plant-0504461`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/new-elk-prep-plant-0504461`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/0504461/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/0504461/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://0504461/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`