# SUNRISE GOLD PLACER MINE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2602635
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Pershing, NV
- **Operator:** Sunrise Minerals
- **Controller:** Donald E  Siecke
- **Public source rows linked:** 199
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Donald E  Siecke (0073831) → Sunrise Minerals (0087884) → SUNRISE GOLD PLACER MINE (2602635)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Donald E  Siecke et al → Sunrise Minerals:** 2008-01-02 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602635; 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 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 213 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 54 violation rows across the full record; 15 carry an S&S flag and $9,333 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 6 samples:** Occupational health samples 6 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 — No published quarter:** Quarterly production and employment The source remains registered, but no mine-keyed quarterly production row was published.
5. **LEGAL — 6 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 2 contested-violation rows, 2 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 2 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 — 1 since 2021:** Inspections 31 inspection events and 471 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 56.14107 — 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 56.12004 — 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 56.4130 — Electric substations and liquid storage facilities.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4130
- **30 CFR 56.14205 — Machinery, equipment, and tools.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14205
- **30 CFR 56.16009 — Suspended loads.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16009
- **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 56.14101 — Brakes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14101
- **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 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 56.15001 — First-aid materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15001

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2008-12-08 through 2018-11-09; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-10-10 through 2019-10-10; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 53 rows; 2008-05-15 through 2018-05-17; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 2 rows; 2011-05-11 through 2018-02-22; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2017-07-25 through 2017-07-25; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 2 rows; 2009-02-25 through 2017-05-04; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 11 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 6 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2008-01-02 through 2008-01-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 31 rows; 2008-05-14 through 2026-02-09; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 24 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:** 6 rows; 2009-06-18 through 2013-04-16; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 54 rows; 2008-05-15 through 2018-05-17; 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/sunrise-gold-placer-mine-2602635`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/sunrise-gold-placer-mine-2602635`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2602635/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2602635/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2602635/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`