# Borealis Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2601655
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Mineral, NV
- **Operator:** Borealis Mining Company, LLC
- **Controller:** Andreas  Steckenborn; Kelly  Malcolm
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,334
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Andreas  Steckenborn; Kelly  Malcolm (0176864) → Borealis Mining Company, LLC (0127133) → Borealis Mine (2601655)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Houston Oil & Minerals Corp → Houston International Minerals Corp:** 1980-06-01 through 1981-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Tenneco Inc → Tenneco Minerals Company:** 1981-05-01 through 1986-11-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Echo Bay Mines Ltd → Echo Bay Minerals Company:** 1986-11-19 through 2003-08-14; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gryphon Gold Corporation → Borealis Mining Company:** 2003-08-15 through 2013-01-29; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Waterton Global Value L P et al → Borealis Mining Company, LLC:** 2013-01-30 through 2023-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Gryphon Gold Corporation et al → Borealis Mining Company, LLC:** 2013-01-30 through 2023-04-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Kelly  Malcolm et al → Borealis Mining Company, LLC:** 2023-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Andreas  Steckenborn et al → Borealis Mining Company, LLC:** 2023-05-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2601655; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 8
- Typed edges: 19
- 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 — 14 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 27 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 516 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 59 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 122 violation rows across the full record; 30 carry an S&S flag and $81,985 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 10 samples:** Occupational health samples 10 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 23K employee hours and 28 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 25 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 7 contested-violation rows, 8 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 10 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 7 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 — 38 since 2021:** Inspections 65 inspection events and 1K 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 56.9100 — Traffic control.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-H/section-56.9100
- **30 CFR 56.17001 — Illumination of surface working areas.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-P/section-56.17001
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **30 CFR 56.14103 — Operators stations.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14103
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **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 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
- **30 CFR 56.15007 — Protective equipment or clothing for welding, cutting, or working with molten metal.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15007
- **30 CFR 56.18020 — Working alone.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18020

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 27 rows; 2011-10-22 through 2026-08-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2013-10-01 through 2013-10-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 122 rows; 2011-11-02 through 2026-04-07; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 8 rows; 2013-03-15 through 2026-06-11; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 10 rows; 2011-12-22 through 2025-05-14; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 7 rows; 2011-11-02 through 2024-08-27; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 603 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 131 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 8 rows; 1980-06-01 through 2013-01-30; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 65 rows; 2011-11-02 through 2026-09-01; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 179 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 40 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:** 10 rows; 2011-11-30 through 2025-05-07; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 122 rows; 2011-11-02 through 2026-09-02; 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/borealis-mine-2601655`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/borealis-mine-2601655`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2601655/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2601655/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2601655/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`