Mining Incidents

Eldorado Quartz Quarry Metal/Non-Metal

Decorative Stone Company · Surface
Controlled by Howard Bruce Gordon
Montgomery County, NC  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 3102098

MSHA record for Eldorado Quartz Quarry (mine ID 3102098). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Ownership history
  1. Decorative Stone Company 1994 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Eldorado Quartz Quarry sits in Montgomery County, North Carolina, where the Census mining category is 0.1% of county employment.

Local economic context
County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.
Montgomery County, North Carolina · Population 25,874
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$55,849
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.