# Ash Meadows Plant & Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2602104
- **Status:** Intermittent
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Crushed, Broken Stone NEC
- **Location:** Nye, NV
- **Operator:** St. Cloud Mining Company
- **Controller:** Equalizer Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 551
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Equalizer Inc (0191381) → St. Cloud Mining Company (L06398) → Ash Meadows Plant & Mine (2602104)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **East West Minerals N L → East West Minerals Inc:** 1989-05-01 through 1992-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **American Pacific Minerals Ltd → American Resource Corp:** 1993-01-01 through 1996-07-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Rea Gold Corp → American Resource Corp Inc:** 1996-07-19 through 1999-06-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Timothy J  Wuest → Ash Meadows LLC:** 1999-07-01 through 2007-09-30; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Atlas Minerals Inc → ZEOX Mineral Materials Corporation:** 2007-10-01 through 2006-10-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **ZEOX Corporation → ZEOX Mineral Materials Corporation:** 2007-10-01 through 2010-09-01; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Imagin Minerals Incorporated → St. Cloud Mining Company:** 2010-09-02 through 2024-12-12; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Goldfield Corp → St. Cloud Mining Company:** 2010-09-02 through 2002-12-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Equalizer Inc → St. Cloud Mining Company:** 2024-12-13 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602104; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 9
- Typed edges: 24
- Interval anomalies: 2
- 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 7 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 18 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 96 violation rows across the full record; 18 carry an S&S flag and $17,585 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 19 samples:** Occupational health samples 19 personal. 2 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 364 employee hours and 2 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 15 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 10 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 3 since 2021:** Inspections 49 inspection events and 727 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 56.12008 — 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 56.4500 — Heat sources.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4500
- **30 CFR 56.4011 — Abandoned electric circuits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4011
- **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 56.12004 — Electrical conductors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12004
- **30 CFR 56.11012 — Protection for openings around travelways.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11012
- **30 CFR 56.12002 — Controls and switches.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12002
- **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 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30
- **30 CFR 48.31 — Hazard training.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.31
- **30 CFR 56.14105 — Procedures during repairs or maintenance.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14105

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 7 rows; 2002-07-31 through 2012-06-25; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-04-21 through 2025-04-21; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 95 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2015-11-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 10 rows; 2000-09-08 through 2016-01-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2005-06-20 through 2006-02-08; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2015-04-21 through 2015-04-21; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 9 rows; 1989-05-01 through 2010-09-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 49 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2026-07-29; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 208 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 51 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:** 19 rows; 2001-08-16 through 2025-05-05; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 96 rows; 2000-11-02 through 2015-11-05; 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/ash-meadows-plant-mine-2602104`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/ash-meadows-plant-mine-2602104`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2602104/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2602104/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2602104/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`