North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 2002

21239 - Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

This industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other industry, primarily engaged in mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing non-metallic minerals, such as asbestos, gypsum and potash, and extracting peat.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • mining or quarrying dimension stone (See 21231 Stone Mining and Quarrying)
  • mining or quarrying shale and mining, beneficiating, or otherwise preparing clays and refractory minerals (See 21232 Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying)
  • operating sand and gravel pits and dredging for sand and gravel (See 21232 Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying)
  • the production of phosphoric acid, superphosphates or other manufactured phosphate compounds or chemicals (See 32531 Fertilizer Manufacturing)

212392 - Diamond Mining^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining diamonds of industrial or gem quality.

• Example Activities:

  • Diamond mining

212393 - Salt Mining^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining rock salt or in the recovery of salt from brine wells.

• Example Activities:

  • Processing of salt at the mine site
  • Refining salt at the mine site
  • Rock salt mining
  • Rock salt processing at the mine site
  • Salt brining (deposit extraction)
  • Salt mining, common
  • Salt refining at the mine site

212394 - Asbestos Mining^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing asbestos.

• Example Activities:

  • Amosite, milled fibre, mining
  • Asbestos mining
  • Chrysotile fibre, milling
  • Crocidolite, milled fibre, mining

212395 - Gypsum Mining^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing gypsum.

• Example Activities:

  • Alabaster mining
  • Anhydrite mining
  • Gypsite mining
  • Hydrous calcium sulphate (gypsum) mining
  • Mining gypsum
  • Selenite mining

212396 - Potash Mining^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing potash.

• Example Activities:

  • Muriate of potash, mining
  • Potash mining and/or beneficiating
  • Potash screening and pulverizing, mining
  • Potassium chloride (i.e., potash), mining and/or beneficiating

212397 - Peat Extraction^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in extracting and processing peat.

• Example Activities:

  • Peat bog
  • Peat mining
  • Peat moss digging or harvesting
  • Peat moss harvesting, extraction, cutting
  • Peat, fuel, mining
  • Screening peat
  • Sedge peat mining
  • Shredding peat mining

212398 - All Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments, not classified to any other Canadian industry, primarily engaged in mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing non-metallic minerals.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • mining or quarrying dimension stone (See 21231 Stone Mining and Quarrying)
  • operating sand and gravel pits and dredging for sand and gravel (See 212323 Sand and Gravel Mining and Quarrying)
  • mining or quarrying shale and mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing clays and refractory minerals (See 212326 Shale, Clay and Refractory Mineral Mining and Quarrying)
  • mining diamonds of industrial or gem quality (See 212392 Diamond Mining)
  • mining salt or in the recovery of salt from brine wells (See 212393 Salt Mining)
  • mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing asbestos (See 212394 Asbestos Mining)
  • mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing gypsum (See 212395 Gypsum Mining)
  • mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing potash (See 212396 Potash Mining)
  • extracting and processing peat (See 212397 Peat Extraction)

• Example Activities:

  • Actinolite mine
  • Agate mining
  • Alunite mining
  • Amblygonite mining
  • Amethyst mining
  • Apatite mining
  • Barium ore mining
  • Black lead mine
  • Borax mining
  • Brimstone mining
  • Celestite concentrate, mining
  • Colemanite mining
  • Corundum mining
  • Diatomaceous earth mining
  • Diatomite mining
  • Earth, coloured, mine
  • Epsomite, mining
  • Fluorspar mining
  • Gem stone mining
  • Gilsonite mining
  • Glauber's salt, mining
  • Greensand mining
  • Hydrous sodium sulphate (glauber's salt), mining
  • Iceland spar (i.e., optical grade calcite), mining
  • Kernite mining
  • Lepidolite mining
  • Lithium mineral mining
  • Magnesium sulphate mine
  • Meerschaum mining or quarrying
  • Mica mining
  • Muscovite mining
  • Ocher mining
  • Ozokerite mining
  • Perlite mining
  • Phosphate rock mining
  • Pozzolana (volcanic ash), mining
  • Precious stones mining
  • Probertite mining
  • Pumicite mining
  • Pyrites mining
  • Pyrophyllite mining
  • Quartz crystal mining (pure)
  • Scoria mining
  • Semiprecious stones mining
  • Sienna mining
  • Soda ash mining
  • Sodium compounds, natural (except common salt) mining
  • Strontianite mining
  • Sulfur, ground or otherwise treated
  • Talc mining
  • Trona mining
  • Turquoise mining
  • Ulexite mining
  • Umber mining
  • Vermiculite mining
  • Withrite mining or quarrying
  • Wurtzilite mining