# Continental Mill Complex

- **MSHA mine ID:** 2900731
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Copper Ore NEC
- **Location:** Grant, NM
- **Operator:** Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining Company
- **Controller:** Freeport-McMoRan Inc
- **Public source rows linked:** 482
- **Source coverage:** 14 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Freeport-McMoRan Inc (0067299) → Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining Company (L15687) → Continental Mill Complex (2900731)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **U V Industries Inc → U V Industries Inc:** 1950-01-01 through 1992-12-31; derived from co-tenure at mine 2900731; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Metallic Ventures Gold Inc → Cobre Mining Company Inc:** 1993-01-01 through 1998-02-02; derived from co-tenure at mine 2900731; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Phelps Dodge Corp → Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining Company:** 1998-02-03 through 2007-03-18; derived from co-tenure at mine 2900731; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Freeport-McMoRan Inc → Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining Company:** 2007-03-19 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 2900731; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 4
- Typed edges: 11
- 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 1 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 46 violation rows across the full record; 7 carry an S&S flag and $5,490 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 4 samples:** Occupational health samples 4 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 11K employee hours and 43 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 8 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 4 contested-violation rows, 4 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 2 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 36 inspection events and 544 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 56.12006 — Distribution boxes.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12006
- **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 56.11001 — Safe access.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11001
- **30 CFR 56.4530 — Exits.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-C/section-56.4530
- **30 CFR 56.14100 — Safety defects; examination, correction and records.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14100
- **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
- **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 56.12025 — Grounding circuit enclosures.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12025
- **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 56.20003 — Housekeeping.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-S/section-56.20003
- **30 CFR 56.11002 — Handrails and toeboards.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11002

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 1 rows; 2017-08-15 through 2017-08-15; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2018-02-01 through 2018-02-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 46 rows; 2001-05-15 through 2017-10-04; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 4 rows; 2010-03-02 through 2017-07-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 4 rows; 2009-02-26 through 2016-11-16; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 158 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 14 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 4 rows; 1950-01-01 through 1998-02-03; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 36 rows; 2000-01-03 through 2017-10-04; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 134 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 29 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:** 4 rows; 2013-04-30 through 2013-04-30; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 46 rows; 2001-05-15 through 2017-10-04; 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/continental-mill-complex-2900731`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/continental-mill-complex-2900731`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/2900731/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/2900731/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://2900731/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`