212390 Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

Overview

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, and/or milling or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) nonmetallic minerals (except coal, stone, sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals). Drylake brine operations are included in this industry, as well as establishments engaged in producing the specified minerals from underground and open pit mines.

Illustrative Examples:
Barite mining and/or beneficiating
Phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
Borate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Potash mining and/or beneficiating
Peat mining and/or beneficiating
Rock salt mining and/or beneficiating

Cross-References

  • Mining or quarrying stone--are classified in Industry 21231, Stone Mining and Quarrying;
  • Mining, quarrying, or beneficiating sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals--are classified in Industry 21232, Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying;
  • Calcining, dead burning, or otherwise processing (i.e., beyond basic preparation) minerals, such as talc, mica, feldspar, barite, and soapstone--are classified in U.S. Industry 327992, Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing sodium carbonate, boron compounds, and/or potassium salts--are classified in Industry 325180, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing table salt--are classified in U.S. Industry 311942, Spice and Extract Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing industrial salt--are classified in U.S. Industry 325998, All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing;
  • Manufacturing phosphoric acid, superphosphates, or other phosphatic fertilizer materials--are classified in U.S. Industry 325312, Phosphatic Fertilizer Manufacturing; and
  • Providing support activities (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation) for the mining of nonmetallic minerals (except fuel) on a contract or fee basis--are classified in U.S. Industry 213115, Support Activities for Nonmetallic Minerals (except Fuels) Mining.

Index Entries

Abrasive stones (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice) mining and/or beneficiating
Abrasives, natural (except sand), mining and/or beneficiating
Agate mining and/or beneficiating
Alabaster mining and/or beneficiating
Alum, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Alunite mining and/or beneficiating
Amblygonite mining and/or beneficiating
Amethyst mining and/or beneficiating
Apatite mining and/or beneficiating
Arsenic mineral mining and/or beneficiating
Asbestos mining and/or beneficiating
Ash, volcanic, mining and/or beneficiating
Asphalt rock mining and/or beneficiating
Asphalt, native, mining and/or beneficiating
Barite mining and/or beneficiating
Barium ores mining and/or beneficiating
Barytes mining and/or beneficiating
Borate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Borax, crude, ground or pulverized, mining and/or beneficiating
Boron compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
Boron mineral mining and/or beneficiating
Brimstone mining and/or beneficiating
Burrstones, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Calcined phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
Calcite mining and/or beneficiating
Catlinite mining and/or beneficiating
Celestite mining and/or beneficiating
Chasers mining and/or beneficiating
Colemanite mining and/or beneficiating
Corundum mining and/or beneficiating
Cryolite mining and/or beneficiating
Diamonds, industrial, mining and/or beneficiating
Diatomaceous earth mining and/or beneficiating
Diatomite mining and/or beneficiating
Dragstones mining and/or beneficiating
Dried phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
Earth, diatomaceous, mining and/or beneficiating
Emery mining and/or beneficiating
Fertilizer minerals, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Fill dirt pits mining and/or beneficiating
Fluorite mining and/or beneficiating
Fluorspar mining and/or beneficiating
Garnet mining and/or beneficiating
Gem stone (e.g., amethyst, garnet, agate, ruby, sapphire, jade) mining and/or beneficiating
Gilsonite mining and/or beneficiating
Glauber's salt mining and/or beneficiating
Grahamite mining and/or beneficiating
Graphite mining and/or beneficiating
Greensand mining and/or beneficiating
Grinding pebbles mining and/or beneficiating
Grindstones mining and/or beneficiating
Guano mining and/or beneficiating
Gypsite mining and/or beneficiating
Gypsum mining and/or beneficiating
Hones mining and/or beneficiating
Humus, peat, mining and/or beneficiating
Iceland spar (i.e., optical grade calcite), mining and/or beneficiating
Jade mining and/or beneficiating
Kernite mining and/or beneficiating
Lepidolite mining and/or beneficiating
Lithium mineral mining and/or beneficiating
Marcasite mining and/or beneficiating
Meerschaum mining and/or beneficiating
Mica mining and/or beneficiating
Millstones mining and/or beneficiating
Mineral pigments, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Muriate of potash, mining
Muscovite mining and/or beneficiating
Native asphalt mining and/or beneficiating
Natural abrasives (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice) (except sand) mining and/or beneficiating
Ocher mining and/or beneficiating
Oilstones mining and/or beneficiating
Optical grade calcite mining and/or beneficiating
Ozokerite mining and/or beneficiating
Pavers mining and/or beneficiating
Peat grinding
Peat humus mining and/or beneficiating
Peat mining and/or beneficiating
Pebbles grinding
Perlite mining and/or beneficiating
Phlogopite mining and/or beneficiating
Phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
Pigments, natural, mineral, mining and/or beneficiating
Pipestones mining and/or beneficiating
Potash mining and/or beneficiating
Potassium bromide, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Potassium chloride mining and/or beneficiating
Potassium compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
Potassium compounds, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Potassium salts, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Pozzolana mining and/or beneficiating
Precious stones mining and/or beneficiating
Probertite mining and/or quarrying
Pulpstones, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Pumice mining and/or beneficiating
Pumicite mining and/or beneficiating
Pyrite concentrates mining and/or beneficiating
Pyrite mining and/or beneficiating
Pyrophyllite mining and/or beneficiating
Pyrrhotite mining and/or beneficiating
Quartz crystal, pure, mining and/or beneficiating
Reed peat mining and/or beneficiating
Rock salt mining and/or beneficiating
Rubbing stones mining and/or beneficiating
Ruby mining and/or beneficiating
Salines mining and/or beneficiating
Salt, common, mining and/or beneficiating
Salt, rock, mining and/or beneficiating
Sapphire mining and/or beneficiating
Scoria mining and/or beneficiating
Screening peat
Scythestones mining and/or beneficiating
Sedge peat mining and/or beneficiating
Selenite mining and/or beneficiating
Semiprecious stones mining and/or beneficiating
Shell mining and/or beneficiating
Shredding peat mining and/or beneficiating
Sienna mining and/or beneficiating
Sintered phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
Soapstone mining and/or beneficiating
Soda ash mining and/or beneficiating
Soda ash, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Sodium borates, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Sodium carbonates, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Sodium chloride, rock salt, mining and/or beneficiating
Sodium compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
Sodium compounds, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Sodium sulfate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
Spar, iceland, mining and/or beneficiating
Spodumene mining and/or beneficiating
Staurolite mining and/or beneficiating
Steatite mining and/or beneficiating
Stones, abrasive (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice), mining and/or beneficiating
Strontianite mining and/or beneficiating
Strontium mineral mining and/or beneficiating
Sulfate, sodium, mining and/or beneficiating
Sulfur mining and/or beneficiating
Sulfur, native, mining and/or beneficiating
Talc mining and/or beneficiating
Tripoli mining and/or beneficiating
Trona mining and/or beneficiating
Turquoise mining and/or beneficiating
Ulexite mining and/or beneficiating
Umber mining and/or beneficiating
Vermiculite mining and/or beneficiating
Volcanic ash mining and/or beneficiating
Whetstones mining and/or beneficiating
Wollastonite mining and/or beneficiating
Wurtzilite mining and/or beneficiating