Mining Incidents

Sheep Creek Mill Metal/Non-Metal

Mountain Minerals Northwest Company Ltd · Surface
Controlled by Mountain Minerals Company Ltd
Stevens County, WA  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 4503034

Sheep Creek Mill has no reportable incidents on file with MSHA.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
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Latest incident
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Ownership history
  1. Phoenix Resource Recovery Company Inc 1985 to 1987
  2. Northport Mill-Jv 1988 to 1991
  3. Newco 1991 to 1991
  4. Mountain Minerals Northwest Company Ltd 1991 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
Year Employees
1991 3
1989 1
1988 2
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly; years before 2000 come from MSHA's archived Part 50 employment files.

Sheep Creek Mill sits in Stevens County, Washington, where the Census mining category is 0.6% 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.
Stevens County, Washington · Population 47,470
0.6%
Mining share of county employment
$67,405
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.