KBLI B—Mining and Excavation

Where B sits

1. B Mining and Excavation

Contains 5 narrower codes

• 05 Coal and Lignite Mining
• 06 Crude Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
• 07 Metal Ore Mining
• 08 Mining and Other Excavations
• 09 Mining Support Service Activities

What B includes

• The mining and quarrying category covers the extraction of naturally occurring minerals in solid (coal and metal ores), liquid (petroleum), or gaseous (natural gas) form from mines and the seabed, and the extraction of salts from seawater, brine, and other saline waters.
• Extraction can be carried out using various methods, such as surface or underground mining, operating mining wells, and seabed mining. This category includes additional activities for preparing raw minerals and ores for marketing, such as crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, sorting, beneficiation, and concentration of metal ores, and liquefaction of natural gas.
• Mining activities are classified into main groups, classes, and subclasss based on the primary minerals produced.
• Main divisions 05 and 06 relate to the mining and quarrying of fossil fuels (coal, lignite, petroleum, and natural gas); main divisions 07 and 08 relate to metal ores, various minerals, and minerals.
• Some technical operations in this category, particularly those related to hydrocarbon extraction, may also be performed for third parties by specialized units as industrial services, which is reflected in main division 09.

What B excludes

• Further processing of extracted materials, see category C (industry);
• Use of extracted materials without any change in form for construction purposes, see category F (construction);
• Bottling of water (natural spring water and mineral water from springs and wells, see 1105);
• Remediation of mining sites, see class 3900;
• Stripping of overburden and contouring of land at mining sites, see class 4312.

B in other systems