# FX Minerals Processing, Inc.

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4609571
- **Status:** Active
- **Type / commodity:** Facility / Alumina
- **Location:** Hancock, WV
- **Operator:** FX Minerals Processing, Inc.
- **Controller:** Shanxi Fangxing Minerals
- **Public source rows linked:** 382
- **Source coverage:** 12 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Shanxi Fangxing Minerals (0148283) → FX Minerals Processing, Inc. (0164054) → FX Minerals Processing, Inc. (4609571)**

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

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Shanxi Fangxing Minerals → FX Minerals Processing, Inc.:** 2019-05-02 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4609571; 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 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 94 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 113 violation rows across the full record; 15 carry an S&S flag and $38,860 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 40 samples:** Occupational health samples 40 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 24K employee hours and 35 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 2 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 0 contested-violation rows, 0 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 — 21 since 2021:** Inspections 27 inspection events and 509 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 56.18002 — Examination of working places.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-Q/section-56.18002
- **30 CFR 56.14112 — Construction and maintenance of guards.** (4 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-M/section-56.14112
- **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 56.14100 — 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 56.23003 — Requirements for written safety program.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-T/section-56.23003
- **30 CFR 56.11012 — Protection for openings around travelways.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-K/part-56/subpart-J/section-56.11012

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2019-10-01 through 2019-10-01; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 109 rows; 2019-12-30 through 2026-08-27; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Conferences:** 2 rows; 2021-08-30 through 2024-01-12; source ID `msha-conferences`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 15 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 1 rows; 2019-05-02 through 2019-05-02; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 27 rows; 2019-12-30 through 2026-08-24; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 54 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 16 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:** 40 rows; 2021-07-14 through 2026-08-26; source ID `msha-personal-health-samples`
- **Violations:** 113 rows; 2019-12-30 through 2026-08-27; 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/fx-minerals-processing-inc-4609571`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/fx-minerals-processing-inc-4609571`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4609571/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4609571/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4609571/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`