North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2002

21231 - Stone Mining and Quarrying

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension stone, rough blocks or slabs of stone, and crushed and broken stone.

212314 - Granite Mining and Quarrying^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension granite, rough blocks or slabs of granite, and crushed and broken granite, including related rocks.

• Example Activities:

  • Building stone, granite, rough, mining
  • Dimensional stone, granite, rough, mining
  • Diorite, quarrying
  • Gneiss, quarrying
  • Granite quarry
  • Granite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Greenstone, dimension, quarrying
  • Syenite (except nepheline), quarrying

212315 - Limestone Mining and Quarrying^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension limestone, rough blocks or slabs of limestone, and crushed and broken limestone, including related rocks. Establishments engaged in the grinding or pulverizing of limestone are also included.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • producing lime (See 327410 Lime Manufacturing)

• Example Activities:

  • Agricultural limestone, ground
  • Building stone, limestone, rough, mining
  • Calcareous tufa, dimension, quarrying
  • Calcium limestone, crude, mining
  • Cement rock, quarrying
  • Chalk mine or quarry
  • Chalk, ground or otherwise treated, mining
  • Chemical and metallurgical stone, limestone, crude, mining
  • Dolomite (limestone), crude, quarrying
  • Fluxstone, limestone, crude, mining
  • Limestone quarry
  • Sedimentary rock quarry
  • Stone quarrying, limestone
  • Travertine, quarrying

212316 - Marble Mining and Quarrying^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension marble, rough blocks or slabs of marble, and crushed and broken marble. Establishments engaged in mining or quarrying slate are also included.

• Example Activities:

  • Argillite, dimension, quarrying
  • Basalt, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Basalt, dimension, quarrying
  • Bluestone, dimension, quarrying
  • Chemical and metallurgical stone, marble, rough, mining
  • Diabase, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Diabase, quarrying
  • Dolomitic marble, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Flagstone mining
  • Gabbro, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Gabbro, quarrying
  • Marble quarry
  • Monumental and ornamental stone, marble, rough, mining
  • Onyx marble, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Onyx marble, dimension-quarrying
  • Riprap (except limestone and granite), quarrying
  • Slate, quarrying
  • Volcanic rock, quarrying

212317 - Sandstone Mining and Quarrying^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension sandstone, rough blocks or slabs of sandstone, and crushed and broken sandstone.

• Example Activities:

  • Ganister, quarrying
  • Grits, crushed and broken stone mining
  • Quartzite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
  • Quartzite, quarrying
  • Sandstone quarry