# Gold Star Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 1202431
- **Status:** Abandoned and Sealed
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Greene, IN
- **Operator:** ERC Mining Indiana Corp
- **Controller:** American Resources Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 2,064
- **Source coverage:** 17 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**American Resources Corporation (0150901) → ERC Mining Indiana Corp (0138734) → Gold Star Mine (1202431)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Rick  Risinger → Lily Group Inc:** 2010-04-09 through 2012-04-22; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202431; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **VHGI Holdings, Inc. → Lily Group Inc:** 2012-04-23 through 2014-02-28; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202431; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **CraKol Energy LLC → South Central Coal Indiana LLC:** 2014-03-01 through 2015-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202431; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Thomas  Sauve → ERC Mining Indiana Corp:** 2015-05-01 through 2021-09-21; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202431; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Resources Corporation → ERC Mining Indiana Corp:** 2021-09-22 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 1202431; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 5
- Typed edges: 13
- 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 174 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 440 violation rows across the full record; 167 carry an S&S flag and $249,388 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 327 samples:** Occupational health samples 264 coal dust; 3 coal quartz; 60 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 4 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 1K employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 60 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 24 contested-violation rows, 22 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 14 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 5 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 — 5 since 2021:** Inspections 92 inspection events and 5K 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 75.1711 — Sealing of mines.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-R/section-75.1711
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 75.364 — Weekly examination.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-D/section-75.364
- **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
- **30 CFR 75.220 — Roof control plan.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-C/section-75.220
- **30 CFR 75.1911 — Fire suppression systems for diesel-powered equipment and fuel transportation units.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-T/section-75.1911
- **30 CFR 75.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-75/subpart-J/section-75.904

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 17 rows; 2012-02-07 through 2015-11-05; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2022-05-10 through 2022-05-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 427 rows; 2010-09-22 through 2018-11-02; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 22 rows; 2015-10-22 through 2017-08-31; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 264 rows; 2011-03-23 through 2022-03-09; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Conferences:** 14 rows; 2013-01-31 through 2016-08-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 24 rows; 2012-02-28 through 2016-04-21; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 434 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 107 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 5 rows; 2010-04-09 through 2015-05-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 92 rows; 2010-09-22 through 2022-03-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 120 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 33 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 60 rows; 2011-03-23 through 2022-03-09; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 3 rows; 2011-09-28 through 2016-02-02; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 440 rows; 2010-09-22 through 2018-11-07; 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/gold-star-mine-1202431`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/gold-star-mine-1202431`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/1202431/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/1202431/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://1202431/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`