# Gold Rule Placer Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2402582
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Powell, MT
- **Operator:** Golden Rule Placer Mining Inc.
- **Controller:** George  Frank
- **Public source rows linked:** 133
- **Source coverage:** 10 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**George  Frank (0100105) → Golden Rule Placer Mining Inc. (0118128) → Gold Rule Placer Mine (2402582)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **George  Frank → Golden Rule Placer Mining Inc.:** 2011-04-26 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2402582; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 1
- Typed edges: 3
- 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: 2026-10-17T05:35:58.500035+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 53 violation rows across the full record; 8 carry an S&S flag and $10,094 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 3 samples:** Occupational health samples 3 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
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 13 inspection events and 274 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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 50.40 — Maintenance of records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-E/section-50.40
- **30 CFR 56.12008 — Insulation and fittings for power wires and cables.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12008
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **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 48.25 — Training of new 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-48.25
- **30 CFR 48.29 — Records of training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.29
- **30 CFR 56.4201 — Inspection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4201
- **30 CFR 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **30 CFR 56.9301 — Dump site restraints.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9301

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-08-01 through 2017-08-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 53 rows; 2011-04-26 through 2015-08-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2014-04-14 through 2014-04-14; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2013-05-28 through 2013-05-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2011-04-26 through 2011-04-26; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 13 rows; 2011-04-26 through 2017-03-15; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **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:** 3 rows; 2013-06-04 through 2013-06-04; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 53 rows; 2011-04-26 through 2015-08-05; 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/gold-rule-placer-mine-2402582`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/gold-rule-placer-mine-2402582`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2402582/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2402582/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2402582/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`