# Norweigen

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2401784
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Madison, MT
- **Operator:** Belmont Mining & Explorations
- **Controller:** Matthew  Ratteree
- **Public source rows linked:** 110
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Matthew  Ratteree (0087753) → Belmont Mining & Explorations (0103725) → Norweigen (2401784)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Norweigen Minerals → Norweigen Minerals:** 1985-05-01 through 2008-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 2401784; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Matthew  Ratteree → Belmont Mining & Explorations:** 2009-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2401784; 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 24 violation rows across the full record; 4 carry an S&S flag and $4,941 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 15 samples:** Occupational health samples 12 personal; 3 area. 1 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 — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 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 14 inspection events and 322 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 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **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.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 57.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14100
- **30 CFR 57.6102 — Explosive material storage practices.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-E/section-57.6102
- **30 CFR 57.4501 — Fuel lines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4501
- **30 CFR 57.14206 — Securing movable parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14206
- **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 57.12018 — Identification of power switches.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12018
- **30 CFR 57.3360 — Ground support use.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-B/section-57.3360
- **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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2010-01-07 through 2010-01-07; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-14; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Area Samples:** 3 rows; 2009-11-19 through 2009-11-19; source ID `msha-area-samples`
- **Assessed Violations:** 23 rows; 2009-09-22 through 2011-05-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2012-02-13 through 2012-02-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2010-05-11 through 2010-05-11; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 1985-05-01 through 2009-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 14 rows; 2009-09-22 through 2011-07-12; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 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:** 12 rows; 2009-09-23 through 2010-01-21; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 24 rows; 2009-09-22 through 2011-05-05; 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/norweigen-2401784`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/norweigen-2401784`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2401784/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2401784/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2401784/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`