# Relief Canyon Mine

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2602657
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Gold Ore
- **Location:** Pershing, NV
- **Operator:** Gold Acquisition Corp.
- **Controller:** Americas Gold and Silver Corporation
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,444
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Americas Gold and Silver Corporation (0151001) → Gold Acquisition Corp. (0134594) → Relief Canyon Mine (2602657)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Firstgold Corporation → Firstgold Corp.:** 2008-09-15 through 2014-08-03; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Pershing Gold Corporation → Gold Acquisition Corp.:** 2014-08-04 through 2019-04-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Americas Gold and Silver Corporation → Gold Acquisition Corp.:** 2019-04-03 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2602657; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 3
- Typed edges: 8
- 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 — 7 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 22 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 515 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 14 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 83 violation rows across the full record; 17 carry an S&S flag and $17,350 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 3K employee hours and 6 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 1 contested-violation rows, 1 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 10 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 — 17 since 2021:** Inspections 47 inspection events and 771 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 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 48.23 — Training plans; time of submission; where filed; information required; time for approval; method for disapproval; commencement of training; approval of instructors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.23
- **30 CFR 48.27 — Training of miners assigned to a task in which they have had no previous experience; minimum courses of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.27
- **30 CFR 47.32 — HazCom program contents.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-47/subpart-D/section-47.32
- **30 CFR 56.13001 — General requirements for boilers and pressure vessels.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-L/section-56.13001
- **30 CFR 56.16004 — Containers for hazardous materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-O/section-56.16004
- **30 CFR 56.14130 — Roll-over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belts.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14130
- **30 CFR 50.20 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Report Form 7000-1—Mine Accident, Injury, and Illness Report.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-C/section-50.20
- **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 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **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:** 22 rows; 2009-03-06 through 2026-06-20; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-10-22 through 2019-10-22; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 80 rows; 2008-12-31 through 2024-03-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 1 rows; 2021-06-04 through 2021-06-04; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 1 rows; 2020-10-23 through 2020-10-23; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 815 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 183 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 3 rows; 2008-09-15 through 2014-08-04; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 47 rows; 2008-12-31 through 2026-04-23; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 162 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 45 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Violations:** 83 rows; 2008-12-31 through 2024-03-27; 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/relief-canyon-mine-2602657`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/relief-canyon-mine-2602657`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2602657/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2602657/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2602657/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`