Section B - Mining and quarrying

This section includes the extraction of minerals occurring naturally as solids (coal and ores), liquids (petroleum) or gases (natural gas). Extraction can be achieved by different methods such as underground or surface mining, well operation, seabed mining etc.

This section also includes supplementary activities aimed at preparing the crude materials for marketing, for example, crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, sorting, concentrating ores, liquefaction of natural gas and agglomeration of solid fuels. These operations are often carried out by the units that extracted the resource and/or others located nearby.

Mining activities are classified into divisions, groups and classes on the basis of the principal mineral produced. Divisions 05, 06 are concerned with mining and quarrying of fossil fuels (coal, lignite, petroleum, gas); divisions 07, 08 concern metal ores, various minerals and quarry products.

Some of the technical operations of this section, particularly related to the extraction of hydrocarbons, may also be carried out for third parties by specialized units as an industrial service, which is reflected in division 09.

This section excludes the processing of the extracted materials (see section C—Manufacturing), which also covers the bottling of natural spring and mineral waters at springs and wells (see class 1104) or the crushing, grinding or otherwise treating certain earths, rocks and minerals not carried out in conjunction with mining and quarrying (see class 2399). This section also excludes the usage of the extracted materials without a further transformation for construction purposes (see section F—Construction), the collection, purification and distribution of water (see class 3600), separate site preparation activities for mining (see class 4312) and geophysical, geologic and seismic surveying activities (see class 7110).

These are the divisions, groups and classes the description of which is included in the e-book “Hashtags for economic activities and functions of government” or can be consulted online via B - Mining and quarrying:

• #isic05 - Mining of coal and lignite
  • #isic051 - Mining of hard coal
    • #isic0510 - Mining of hard coal
  • #isic052 - Mining of lignite
    • #isic0520 - Mining of lignite
• #isic06 - Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
  • #isic061 - Extraction of crude petroleum
    • #isic0610 - Extraction of crude petroleum
  • #isic062 - Extraction of natural gas
    • #isic0620 - Extraction of natural gas
• #isic07 - Mining of metal ores
  • #isic071 - Mining of iron ores
  • #isic0710 - Mining of iron ores
  • #isic072 - Mining of non-ferrous metal ores
    • #isic0721 - Mining of uranium and thorium ores
    • #isic0729 - Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores
• #isic08 - Other mining and quarrying
  • #isic081 - Quarrying of stone, sand and clay
    • #isic0810 - Quarrying of stone, sand and clay
  • #isic089 - Mining and quarrying n.e.c.
    • #isic0891 - Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals
    • #isic0892 - Extraction of peat
    • #isic0893 - Extraction of salt
    • #isic0899 - Other mining and quarrying n.e.c.
• #isic09 - Mining support service activities
  • #isic091 - Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
    • #isic0910 - Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction
  • #isic099 - Support activities for other mining and quarrying
    • #isic0990 - Support activities for other mining and quarrying

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