NAICS Canada 212315—Limestone mining and quarrying

Where 212315 sits

1. 21 Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
2. 212 Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas)
3. 2123 Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying
4. 21231 Stone mining and quarrying
5. 212315 Limestone mining and quarrying

Description

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension limestone, rough blocks or slabs of limestone, crushed and broken limestone, and related rocks.

What 212315 excludes

• Limestone fertilizer made in plants producing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials (see 325313 chemical fertilizer (except potash) manufacturing (can))
• Limestone manufacturing made by mixing purchased materials (see 325314 mixed fertilizer manufacturing (us))
• Producing lime (see 327410 lime manufacturing)

Example activities

• agricultural limestone, ground (except fertilizer)
• calcareous tufa, crushed and broken, quarrying
• cement rock, quarrying
• chalk mine or quarry
• dolomite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
• travertine, quarrying
• bituminous limestone quarrying
• building stone, limestone, rough, mining
• calcareous tufa, dimension, quarrying
• calcium limestone, crude, mining
• chalk, ground or otherwise treated, mining
• chemical and metallurgical stone, limestone, crude, mining
• dolomite (limestone), crude, quarrying
• flux stone, limestone, crude, mining
• grinding or pulverizing of limestone
• lime rock, ground, mining
• limestone crushing, on contract
• limestone cutting (quarrying)
• magnesium limestone, crude, mining
• marl bed or pit
• quarry, dolomite
• sedimentary rock quarry
• stone quarrying, limestone
• whiting mining, crushed and broken stone, quarrying

212315 in other systems