North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2017 Version 3.0

• 21 - Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
• 212 - Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas)
• 2122 - Metal ore mining
• 21229 - Other metal ore mining

212299 - All other metal ore mining^US

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

• Illustrative example(s)

  • molybdenum ore mining
  • ore (e.g., antimony, beryllium, cerium, chromite, chromium, cobalt) mining
  • ore (e.g., columbium, ilmenite, iridium, magnesium, manganese, palladium, roscoelite) mining
  • ore (e.g., ruthenium, scheelite, tantalum, tin, titanium, tungsten, quicksilver, zirconium) mining
  • ore dressing and beneficiating (e.g., cobalt, manganese, tantalum, tungsten)
  • rare-earths ore mining

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • mining, beneficiating or otherwise preparing uranium-radium-vanadium ores (See 212291 Uranium ore mining)