ISIC 0891—Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals

Where 0891 sits

1. B Mining and quarrying
2. 08 Other mining and quarrying
3. 089 Mining and quarrying n.e.c.
4. 0891 Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals

What 0891 includes

• Mining of natural phosphates and natural potassium salts
• Mining of native sulphur
• Extraction and preparation of pyrites and pyrrhotite, except roasting
• Mining of natural barium sulphate and carbonate (barytes and witherite), natural borates, natural magnesium sulphates (kieserite)
• Mining of earth colours, fluorspar and other minerals valued chiefly as a source of chemicals
• Guano mining
• Mining of medicinal mud

What 0891 excludes

• Extraction of salt, see 0893
• Roasting of iron pyrites, see 2011
• Manufacture of synthetic fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, see 2012

0891 in other systems