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Exhibit 95
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 April 30, 2012 and all pending legal actions as of April 30, 2012. Due to timing and other factors, the data may not agree with the mine data retrieval system maintained by MSHA.
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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)
|
Receive
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
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
|||||||
|
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
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
|||||||
|
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
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
|||||||
|
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
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
|||||||
|
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
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
|||||||
|
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
|
|
Great Basin Gold-Ivanhoe/Hollister
|
No
|
No
|
||||||||||
|
Gryphon Gold-Borealis
|
No
|
No
|
||||||||||
|
Harvest Gold-Rosebud
|
No
|
No
|
||||||||||
|
JR Simplot – Soda Springs
|
No
|
No
|
||||||||||
|
Kennecott UT Copper- Bingham
|
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
|
1
|
$895
|
No
|
No
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
|||||
|
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
|
||||||||||
|
Quadra Mining-Robinson
|
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
|
The 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 April 30, 2012, the Company has a total of 4 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 April 30, 2012, 4 actions were instituted before the Commission and 6 matters were resolved.