# Mineral Separation Plant

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407221
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Titanium Ore
- **Location:** Sussex, VA
- **Operator:** Atlantic Strategic Minerals
- **Controller:** Appian Capital Advisory
- **Public source rows linked:** 1,269
- **Source coverage:** 13 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-17T06:17:15.228Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Appian Capital Advisory (0185161) → Atlantic Strategic Minerals (0195993) → Mineral Separation Plant (4407221)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Iluka Resources Ltd → Iluka Resources Inc.:** 2008-04-01 through 2024-11-24; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407221; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Appian Capital Advisory → Atlantic Strategic Minerals:** 2024-11-25 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407221; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- 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 — 2 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 5 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 4 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 2 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 86 violation rows across the full record; 11 carry an S&S flag and $24,500 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 20 samples:** Occupational health samples 20 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 — 10 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 5 contested-violation rows, 5 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 9 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 — 6 since 2021:** Inspections 31 inspection events and 634 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 56.12028 — Testing grounding systems.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12028
- **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.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.23
- **30 CFR 62.174 — Follow-up corrective measures when a standard threshold shift is detected.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-62/section-62.174
- **30 CFR 48.25 — Training of new miners; minimum courses of instruction; hours of instruction.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.25
- **30 CFR 56.12030 — Correction of dangerous conditions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-K/section-56.12030
- **30 CFR 50.30 — Preparation and submission of MSHA Form 7000-2—Quarterly Employment and Coal Production Report.** (2 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-I/part-50/subpart-D/section-50.30

## Source coverage

- **Accident, Injuries, and Illnesses:** 5 rows; 2010-01-18 through 2025-12-08; source ID `msha-accidents`
- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2025-08-19 through 2025-08-19; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 86 rows; 2008-04-01 through 2026-08-12; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 5 rows; 2013-01-30 through 2016-06-24; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Contested Violations:** 5 rows; 2012-07-19 through 2015-08-05; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 852 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 155 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2008-04-01 through 2024-11-25; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 31 rows; 2008-04-01 through 2026-08-11; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 20 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:** 20 rows; 2010-06-16 through 2025-09-24; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 86 rows; 2008-04-01 through 2026-08-12; 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/mineral-separation-plant-4407221`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/mineral-separation-plant-4407221`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407221/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407221/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407221/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`