Mining Incidents

Great Eagle Metal/Non-Metal

Mc Cauley Mining Company · Underground
Controlled by Mc Cauley Tom
Grant County, NM  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2901360

MSHA record for Great Eagle (mine ID 2901360). 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. Frontier Metals Corp 1950 to 1978
  2. Mc Cauley Mining Company 1978 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Great Eagle sits in Grant County, New Mexico, where the Census mining category is 6.7% 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.
Grant County, New Mexico · Population 27,856
6.7%
Mining share of county employment
$45,921
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.