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NACE-BEL B—Mining and quarrying

Section · Nomenclature of Economic Activities (Belgium) (2025)

Where B sits

  1. B Mining and quarrying

Contains 5 narrower codes

What B includes

  • Extractive industries include the extraction of mineral products found in nature in solid form (coal and ores), liquid form (oil), or gaseous form (natural gas). Extraction can be carried out in various ways (e.g., underground, on the surface, by drilling wells, or by seabed mining).
  • This section includes the additional operations necessary to prepare raw materials for sale (such as crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, sorting, ore concentration, and natural gas liquefaction).
  • Mining activities are classified into divisions, groups, and subclasses based on the principal mineral produced. Divisions 5 and 6 concern the extraction of fossil fuels (coal, lignite, oil, gas); divisions 7 and 8 concern the extraction of metallic ores, miscellaneous minerals, and quarry products.
  • Certain technical operations in this section, particularly for hydrocarbon extraction, may be carried out on behalf of third parties by specialized units as industrial service activities under Division 09.

What B excludes

  • Further processing of extracted materials, see Section C
  • The use of extracted materials without processing for construction, see Section F
  • Bottling, at the source or well, of natural spring water and mineral waters, see 11.07
  • The remediation of mining sites, see 39.00

B in other systems

ANZSICAustralia · New Zealand
ICNEAChina
JSICJapan
KBLIIndonesia
NAICS CanadaCanada
SCIANMexico
SICUnited States (legacy)

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