# MOREFIELD MINE

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4406971
- **Status:** Abandoned
- **Type / commodity:** Underground / Gemstones
- **Location:** Amelia, VA
- **Operator:** Morefield Gem Mine, Inc
- **Controller:** Samuel M  Dunaway Jr
- **Public source rows linked:** 332
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Samuel M  Dunaway Jr (M12875) → Morefield Gem Mine, Inc (L16862) → MOREFIELD MINE (4406971)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Samuel M  Dunaway Jr → Morefield Gem Mine, Inc:** 1999-10-01 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4406971; 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: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 4 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 27 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 19 violation rows across the full record; 3 carry an S&S flag and $2,768 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 1 samples:** Occupational health samples 1 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 0 employee hours and 0 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 3 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 1 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 — 0 since 2021:** Inspections 38 inspection events and 637 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 56.12004 — 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 41.10 — Scope.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-G/part-41/subpart-B/section-41.10
- **30 CFR 57.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12028
- **30 CFR 57.18010 — First aid.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-Q/section-57.18010
- **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 57.12032 — Inspection and cover plates.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-57/subpart-K/section-57.12032
- **30 CFR 56.15004 — Eye protection.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-N/section-56.15004
- **30 CFR 50.10 — Immediate notification.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-B/section-50.10
- **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 48.5 — Training of new miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-A/section-48.5

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 4 rows; 2007-05-03 through 2012-11-29; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2016-02-09 through 2016-02-09; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 18 rows; 2002-08-21 through 2015-03-25; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2003-02-14 through 2008-09-25; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Conferences:** 1 rows; 2007-10-02 through 2007-10-02; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contested Violations:** 3 rows; 2007-08-09 through 2007-08-15; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 1999-10-01 through 1999-10-01; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 38 rows; 2000-05-02 through 2015-10-08; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 188 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:** 1 rows; 2009-05-06 through 2009-05-06; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 19 rows; 2002-08-21 through 2015-03-25; 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/morefield-mine-4406971`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/morefield-mine-4406971`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4406971/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4406971/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4406971/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`