# MULE CANYON MINE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2602187
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Lander, NV
- **Operator:** Newmont Mining Corporation
- **Controller:** Newmont Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 167
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Newmont Corporation (M00165) → Newmont Mining Corporation (L15317) → MULE CANYON MINE (2602187)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Hanson PLC → Gold Fields Operating Company:** 1991-05-01 through 1995-07-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Santa Fe Pacific Corp → Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp:** 1995-08-01 through 1997-05-04; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602187; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Newmont Corporation → Newmont Mining Corporation:** 1997-05-05 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602187; 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 3 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 2 violation rows across the full record; 0 carry an S&S flag and $110 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 0 samples:** Occupational health samples No published samples. 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 1 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 2 inspection events and 51 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 56.12028 — 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 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

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 3 rows; 2002-07-14 through 2005-07-21; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2003-08-05 through 2003-08-05; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 2 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2000-07-11; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2000-03-20 through 2000-03-20; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 107 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 21 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 1991-05-01 through 1997-05-05; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 2 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2000-07-10; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 20 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 4 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 2 rows; 2000-03-08 through 2000-07-11; 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/mule-canyon-mine-2602187`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mule-canyon-mine-2602187`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2602187/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2602187/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2602187/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`