# Montanore Project

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2402450
- **Status:** NonProducing
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Silver Ore
- **Location:** Lincoln, MT
- **Operator:** Montanore Minerals Corp
- **Controller:** Hecla Mining Company
- **Public source rows linked:** 616
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Hecla Mining Company (M00089) → Montanore Minerals Corp (0121890) → Montanore Project (2402450)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Glenn M.  Dobbs et al → Mines Management, Inc.:** 2006-06-06 through 2012-03-26; derived from co-tenure at mine 2402450; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Glenn M.  Dobbs et al → Montanore Minerals Corp:** 2012-03-27 through 2012-03-27; derived from co-tenure at mine 2402450; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Mines Management Inc → Montanore Minerals Corp:** 2012-03-28 through 2016-09-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 2402450; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Hecla Mining Company → Montanore Minerals Corp:** 2016-09-15 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2402450; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 10
- 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 136 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 70 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $8,416 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 9 samples:** Occupational health samples 9 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 1K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 6 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 1 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 — 30 since 2021:** Inspections 119 inspection events and 2K 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 57.6305 — Unused explosive material.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-E/section-57.6305
- **30 CFR 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **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 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 57.8520 — Ventilation plan.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-G/section-57.8520
- **30 CFR 57.4130 — Surface electric substations and liquid storage facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4130
- **30 CFR 57.14101 — Brakes.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-M/section-57.14101
- **30 CFR 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2007-08-21 through 2020-11-24; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-03-11 through 2016-03-11; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 70 rows; 2007-08-07 through 2019-12-03; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 6 rows; 2014-10-09 through 2019-02-22; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 29 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 10 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 2006-06-06 through 2012-03-27; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 119 rows; 2006-09-06 through 2026-07-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 235 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 57 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:** 9 rows; 2009-06-03 through 2018-07-24; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 70 rows; 2007-08-07 through 2019-12-03; 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/montanore-project-2402450`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/montanore-project-2402450`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2402450/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2402450/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2402450/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`