EX-95.1 6 d613068dex951.htm EX-95.1 EX-95.1

Exhibit 95.1

Mine Safety Disclosures

Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”) requires companies to disclose in their periodic reports information about the coal and other mines at which they are an operator. The operations of the Company at coal and other mines in the U.S. are inspected by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) on an ongoing basis.

In evaluating the information regarding mine safety and health, investors should take into account the fact that the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act (the “Mine Act”) has been construed as authorizing MSHA to issue citations and orders pursuant to the legal doctrine of strict liability, or liability without fault. If, in the opinion of an MSHA inspector, a condition that violates the Mine Act or regulations promulgated pursuant to it exists, then a citation or order will be issued regardless of whether the operator had any knowledge of, or fault in, the existence of that condition. Many of the Mine Act standards include one or more subjective elements, so that issuance of a citation or order often depends on the opinions or experience of the MSHA inspector.

Whenever MSHA believes that a violation of the Mine Act, any health or safety standard, or any regulation has occurred, it may issue a citation or order which describes the violation and fixes a time within which the operator must abate the violation. In some situations, such as when MSHA believes that conditions pose a hazard to miners, MSHA may issue an order requiring cessation of operations, or removal of miners from the area of the mine, affected by the condition until the hazards are corrected.

Citations and orders can be contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (the “Commission”), and as part of that process, are often reduced in severity and amount, and are sometimes dismissed. The Commission is an independent adjudicative agency that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Mine Act. These cases may involve, among other questions, challenges by operators to citations, orders and penalties they have received from MSHA.

The table that follows reflects citations, orders, violations and proposed assessments issued to the Company by MSHA during the quarter ended October 31, 2013 and all pending legal actions as of October 31, 2013. Due to timing and other factors, the data may not agree with the mine data retrieval system maintained by MSHA.

 

Mine or Operating

Name/MSHA

  Section
104
S&S

(#)
  Section
104(b)
Orders

(#)
  Section
104(d)
Citations
and
Orders

(#)
  Section
110(b)(2)
Violations

(#)
  Section
107(a)
Orders

(#)
  Total
Dollar
Value
of
MSHA

($)
  Total
Number
of
Mining
Related
Fatalities

(#)
  Received
Notice of
Pattern of
Violations
Under
Section
104(e)

(yes/no)
  Received
Notice of
Potential
to Have
Pattern
under
Section
104(e)

(yes/no)
  Legal
Actions
Pending
as of
Last
Day of
Period

(#)
  Legal
Actions
Initiated
During
Period

(#)
  Legal
Actions
Resolved
During
Period

(#)

Hycroft

                No   No      

Swift Creek

Outside Lake City, Florida

                No   No      

Mosaic – Hookers Prairie

                No   No      

Boron Operations

                No   No      

CR Briggs

                No   No      

Barrick Gold, Turguoise Ridge

                No   No      

ISP Minerals

                No   No      

Gold Corp Marigold Mine

                No   No      

Barrick Ruby Hill

                No   No      

Barrick Golden Sunlight

                No   No      

Barrick/ Kinross Round Mountain Gold

                No   No      

Newmont, Buffalo Valley

                No   No        


Nevada Copper

                No   No      

Barrick Cortez

                No   No      

FMI Sierrita Mine, AZ

                No   No      

Jim Walters

                No   No      

Nyrstar Young

                No   No      

Nyrstar Gordonsville

                No   No      

Drummond

                No   No      

Carmeuse

                No   No      

Morgan Worldwide

                No   No      

Carmeuse

                No   No      

Lafarge NA

                No   No      

Lafarge

                No   No      

Lhoist NA

                No   No      

Mingo Logan

                No   No      

US Gypsum

                No   No      

Sweetwater

                No   No      

Libson Vallet

                No   No      

Twenty Mile Coal

                No   No      

Barrick Goldstrike

                No   No      

URS Morenci

                No   No      

Freeport-McMoRan Sierrita

                No   No      

Cyprus Tohono Corp.

                No   No      

Sun Valley Plant

                No   No      

CML Metals

                No   No      

FMI Bagdad

                No   No      

FMI Morenci

                No   No      

FMI Miami

                No   No      

Twin Buttes

                No   No      

FMI – Tyrone

                No   No      

Newmont-Carlin

                No   No      

Silver Bell Mining

                No   No      

Allied NV Hycroft

                No   No      

Imerys Plant #1

                No   No      

PCS Phosphates

                No   No      

Noranda Alumina

                No   No      

Agnico Eagle-West Pequop

                No   No      

Allied NV Gold-Hycroft Mine

                No   No      

Allied NV – Hasbrook

                No   No      

AMEC-Sullivan Ranch

                No   No      

American Lithium Minerals-

                No   No      

Asacro-Chilito

                No   No      

Asarc-Mission

                No   No      

Asarco-Ray

                No   No      

Asarco-Silver Bell

                No   No      

Barrick Arturo (Dee)

                No   No      

Barrick Bald. Mt.

                No   No      

Barrick Cortez

                No   No        


Barrick EXP Surf & UG

                No   No      

Barrick Turquoise Ridge Surf/UG

                No   No      

Barrick-Goldstrike

                No   No      

Barrick-Goldstrike UG

                No   No      

Barrick-Ruby Hill

                No   No      

BH Minerals-

                No   No      

BHP-Pinto Valley

                No   No      

Canamex Resources-Bruner

                No   No      

Cayden Resources US Inc-Quartz MT.

                No   No      

Centerra-Ren

                No   No      

Coeur Rochester-Rochester

                No   No      

Comstock-

                No   No      

Cooper One-

                No   No      

Dynasty Gold

                No   No      

Evolving Gold Corp.

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Bagdad

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Christmas Mine

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan- Chino

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Dragoon

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Miami

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Morenci

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Safford

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Sierrita

                No   No      

Freeport McMoRan-Twin Buttes

                No   No      

Fronteer Development– Long Cany.

                No   No      

Gold Acquisition Corp.

                No   No      

Gold Reef-Rim Rock

                No   No      

Gold Standard Ventures-Railroad

                No   No      

Golden Predator-

                No   No        


Golden Vertex – Moss Mine

                No   No      

Grammercy Facility

    1                         

Great Basin Gold-Ivanhoe/Hollister

                No   No      

Gryphon Gold-Borealis

                No   No      

Harvest Gold-Rosebud

                No   No      

Hayden Concentrator

                No   No     2        2     

JR Simplot – Soda Springs

                No   No      

Kennecott UT Copper- Bingham

                No   No      

KGHM International, Ltd.(Formerly Quadra) Mining-Robinson

    2                  No   No      

Klondex-Fire Creek

                No   No      

Marigold

                No   No      

Meridian Gold-

                No   No      

Metallic Ventures-Converse

                No   No      

Metallic Ventures-Gold Field

                No   No      

Mettalic Ventures- Gemfield

                No   No      

Midway-Pancake

                No   No      

Mineral Ridge

                No   No      

Minerals Technology

                No   No      

Miranda Gold

                No   No      

Montezuma-Red Canyon

                No   No      

Musgrove Mineral

                No   No      

Nevada Copper-Pumpkin

                No   No      

Newmont-Carlin

                No   No      

Newmont Exploration

                No   No      

Newmont Genex

                No   No      

Newmont Leeville

                No   No      

Newmont-Lonetree

                No   No      

Newmont McCoy Cove

                No   No      

Newmont-Midas Surf / UG

                No   No      

Newmont Phoenix

                No   No      

Newmont Twin-Creeks

                No   No      

Northgate Minerals

                No   No      

Oracle Ridge Mining

                No   No      

Paramount Gold and Silver

                No   No        


Paris Hills Agricom

                No   No      

Pilot Gold

                No   No      

Premier Gold Mines-

                No   No      

Quaterra Resources-

                No   No      

Regal Resources – Camp Verde

                No   No      

Renaissance Gold – Spruce MT

                No   No      

Rio Tinto-Resolution

                No   No      

Romarco Minerals-Haile Gold Mine

                No   No      

Round Mt. Gold

                No   No      

Rye Patch Gold

                No   No      

Snowstorm LLC

                No   No      

Solitario Exp-Mt. Hamilton

                No   No      

Talon Gold-N. Bullfrog

                No   No      

Tatmar Ventures

                No   No      

TGC Holdings

                No   No      

Thompson Creek Mining

                No   No      

Trio Gold

                No   No      

US Gold-

                No   No      

Victoria Res.

                No   No      

Vista NV

                No   No      

Western Pacific Resources

                No   No      

WPC Resources

                No   No      

WK Mining

                No   No      

Yukon NV Gold – Surface

                No   No      

Heritage Coal

                No   No      

Carmeuse Lime

                No   No      

Hilltop Basic Resources

                No   No      

Hilltop Basic Resources

                No   No      

Noranda Alumin S. Flourocarbon

                No   No      

Noranda Alumina East Flourocarbon

                No   No      

Carmeuse

                No   No      

Carmeuse

                No   No      

Imery’s

                No   No      

Any citations, orders and assessments reflected above are those initially issued or proposed by MSHA. They do not reflect subsequent changes in the level of severity of a citation or order or the value of an assessment that may occur as a result of proceedings conducted in accordance with MSHA rules and regulations.

The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (the “Commission”) is an independent adjudicative agency that provides administrative trial and appellate review of legal disputes arising under the Mine Act. As of October 31, 2013, the Company has a total of 5 matters pending before the Commission. All of these matters concern contests of citations or orders issued under section 104 of the Mine Act, along with the contests of the proposed penalties for each of these. During the quarter ended October 31, 2013, 4 actions were instituted before the Commission and 0 matters were resolved.