Mining Incidents

Columbia Gold Mines Ltd Metal/Non-Metal

Columbia Gold Mines Ltd · Underground
Goldfield, Esmeralda County, NV  ·  NonProducing
MSHA Mine ID: 2602743

Columbia Gold Mines Ltd has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 2 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
1
Years on record
2026
Latest incident
Apr 2026
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2013
39
citations
9
significant & substantial
$11,666
proposed penalties
$7,716
paid to date
66% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $3,950 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2013
25
inspections on record
386
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 386 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Columbia Gold Mines Ltd has $12K in proposed MSHA penalties and $4K outstanding across 2 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$12K
proposed penalties
$12K
current assessed
$8K
paid to date
$4K
outstanding
18 assessments are final orders; 2 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-02-10.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2025 Q4 0 0 0
2025 Q3 7 0 0 0.0
2025 Q2 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q4 10 0 0 0.0
2024 Q3 10 2 0 200000.0
2024 Q2 0 0 0
2024 Q1 4 0 0 0.0
2023 Q4 13 0 0 0.0
Show 13 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2023 Q3 12 0 0 0.0
2023 Q2 30 0 0 0.0
2023 Q1 18 0 0 0.0
2022 Q4 26 0 0 0.0
2022 Q3 48 3 1 62500.0
2022 Q2 42 0 0 0.0
2022 Q1 42 0 0 0.0
2021 Q4 38 0 0 0.0
2021 Q3 36 0 0 0.0
2021 Q2 36 0 0 0.0
2021 Q1 76 5 0 65789.5
2020 Q4 94 5 0 53191.5
2020 Q3 128 0 0 0.0
No fatalities recorded at this mine.

Reportable incidents

1 on file

2026 · 1 incident

April 8, 2026 NV · Metal/Non-Metal mine manager, mine foreman, mine owner OTHER
Columbia Gold Mines Ltd · (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Employee had not returned phone calls for approximately 2 days so a well being check was called into the County Sheriffs Office as well as to a trusted member of the community. The community member found employee on the ground in a shack adjacent to employee's living area deceased from an apparent heart attack.

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