# Ashdown Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2600578
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Molybdenum Ore
- **Location:** Humboldt, NV
- **Operator:** Ashdown Project LLC
- **Controller:** Win-Eldrich Mines Ltd
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,295
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Win-Eldrich Mines Ltd (0072471) → Ashdown Project LLC (0085884) → Ashdown Mine (2600578)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Inco Ltd → American Copper & Nickel Company Inc:** 1982-06-01 through 2004-10-25; derived from co-tenure at mine 2600578; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Ken  Ripley et al → Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc.:** 2004-10-26 through 2007-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2600578; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Win-Eldrich Mines Ltd → Ashdown Project LLC:** 2007-07-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2600578; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 9
- 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 24 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 1,563 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 378 violation rows across the full record; 113 carry an S&S flag and $261,046 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 55 samples:** Occupational health samples 55 personal. 11 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 576 employee hours and 3 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 160 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 57 contested-violation rows, 57 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 46 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 88 inspection events and 3K 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 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **30 CFR 57.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-J/section-57.11002
- **30 CFR 47.41 — Requirement for container labels.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-E/section-47.41
- **30 CFR 57.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-S/section-57.20003
- **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 57.4201 — Inspection.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4201
- **30 CFR 57.4430 — Surface storage facilities.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-C/section-57.4430
- **30 CFR 41.12 — Changes; notification by operator.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.12
- **30 CFR 57.15001 — First aid materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-N/section-57.15001

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 24 rows; 2005-10-03 through 2010-07-27; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2017-04-05 through 2017-04-05; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 354 rows; 2005-09-21 through 2015-08-13; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 57 rows; 2007-08-16 through 2011-09-21; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 46 rows; 2007-08-14 through 2014-04-04; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 57 rows; 2006-11-16 through 2010-07-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1982-06-01 through 2007-07-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 88 rows; 2005-09-21 through 2017-04-03; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 176 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 35 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:** 55 rows; 2007-05-23 through 2011-03-01; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 378 rows; 2005-09-21 through 2015-08-13; 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/ashdown-mine-2600578`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ashdown-mine-2600578`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2600578/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2600578/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2600578/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`