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01 · Mining safety (MSHA)
MSHA's Part 50 reporting rule, codified at 30 CFR Part 50, requires every US coal, metal, and non-metal mining operation to report accidents, occupational injuries, and occupational illnesses to the Mine Safety and Health Administration. The rule has been in effect since 1978. Source: 30 CFR Part 50, US Code of Federal Regulations (ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-50).
miningincidents.org indexes every reportable incident in MSHA's public Accidents/Injuries/Illnesses dataset from 1983 through the present — approximately 500,000 records — searchable by mine, operator, year, severity, occupation, and a keyword in the investigator's narrative. Source: MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System (msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-system).
The dataset is refreshed weekly from MSHA's open CSV exports; every record preserves its original MSHA report ID end-to-end so any row on miningincidents.org traces back to the source row at msha.gov. Source: miningincidents.org pipeline documentation.
02 · Precious metals (The Vault Report)
COMEX (Commodity Exchange, Inc.) is the primary US futures market for gold, silver, copper, and aluminum. It has been a subsidiary of CME Group since 2008. Source: CME Group — Metals (cmegroup.com/markets/metals.html).
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the primary global exchange for industrial and precious metals; it lists physically-deliverable contracts in gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and the major base metals. Source: London Metal Exchange (lme.com).
US futures markets — including COMEX — are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC publishes the weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report disclosing aggregate long and short positions in regulated futures markets. Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders (cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders).
thevaultreport.com polls COMEX and LME tick feeds at 1-second cadence for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, joined against COT positioning and warehouse flows. Coverage runs from 2023 to the present. Source: thevaultreport.com pipeline documentation.
03 · Studio
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As of 2026, Shovel operates two live products on US public-records data: miningincidents.org (MSHA) and thevaultreport.com (precious metals).
Site content on byshovel.com is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY-4.0). The underlying federal records (MSHA Part 50) are works of the US Government and reside in the public domain.