Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

• 1 - Goods-Producing Sector
• 3 - Forestry, Fishing, Mining, Oil and Gas
• 21 - Mining and Oil and Gas Extraction
• 212 - Mining (except Oil and Gas)
• 2123 - Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
• 21239 - Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

212398 - All Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

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