Mining Incidents

Rock Creek Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Southern Talc Company · Underground
Controlled by Sued-Chemie AG
Murray County, GA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0901018

MSHA record for Rock Creek Mine (mine ID 0901018). 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. Boundary Creek Mining 1988 to 1988
  2. Southern Talc Company 1988 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.

Rock Creek Mine sits in Murray County, Georgia, where the Census mining category is 0.2% 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.
Murray County, Georgia · Population 40,282
0.2%
Mining share of county employment
$67,880
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.