# NEVADA BARTH IRON MINE AND  MILL

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2600078
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Iron Ore
- **Location:** Eureka, NV
- **Operator:** Saga Exploration Company
- **Controller:** Gregory G  Austin
- **Public source rows linked:** 649
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Gregory G  Austin (M14371) → Saga Exploration Company (L03135) → NEVADA BARTH IRON MINE AND  MILL (2600078)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Gregory G  Austin → Saga Exploration Company:** 1950-01-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2600078; 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 2 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 9 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 170 violation rows across the full record; 40 carry an S&S flag and $30,772 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 29 samples:** Occupational health samples 29 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 2K employee hours and 5 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 20 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 10 contested-violation rows, 10 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 65 inspection events and 786 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 56.1000 — Notification of commencement of operations and closing of mines.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-A/section-56.1000
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (7 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 41.13 — Failure to notify.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.13
- **30 CFR 56.14107 — Moving machine parts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14107
- **30 CFR 56.14103 — Operators stations.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14103
- **30 CFR 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 2 rows; 2004-09-13 through 2009-01-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-10-19 through 2020-10-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 159 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2020-10-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 10 rows; 2010-07-07 through 2010-08-16; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 10 rows; 2007-11-27 through 2007-11-28; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 125 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 32 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1950-01-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 65 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2020-10-06; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 11 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`
- **Metal and Nonmetal Personal Health Samples:** 29 rows; 2007-07-25 through 2013-04-30; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 170 rows; 2000-03-13 through 2020-10-07; 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/nevada-barth-iron-mine-and-mill-2600078`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/nevada-barth-iron-mine-and-mill-2600078`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2600078/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2600078/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2600078/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`