Mining Incidents

Mt Hope Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Mt Hope Mining Company · Underground
Morris County, NJ  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2800714

MSHA record for Mt Hope Mine (mine ID 2800714). 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. Mt Hope Mining Company 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Mt Hope Mine sits in Morris County, New Jersey, 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.
Morris County, New Jersey · Population 510,375
0.1%
Mining share of county employment
$134,929
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.