NAICS 212323—Kaolin, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining

Where 212323 sits

1. 21 Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
2. 212 Mining (except Oil and Gas)
3. 2123 Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
4. 21232 Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying
5. 212323 Kaolin, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining

Description

This U.S. Industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site and/or mining clay (e.g., china clay, paper clay and slip clay) or ceramic and refractory minerals and (2) establishments primarily engaged in beneficiating (i.e., preparing) clay or ceramic and refractory minerals.

Example activities

• bentonite mining and/or beneficiating
• fuller's earth mining and/or beneficiating
• common clay mining and/or beneficiating
• kaolin mining and/or beneficiating
• feldspar mining and/or beneficiating
• ball clay mining and/or beneficiating
• fire clay mining and/or beneficiating
• shale (except oil shale) mining and/or beneficiating

Cross-references for 212323

• Shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixtures--are classified in Industry 327110, Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing;
• Shaping, molding, baking, burning, or hardening clay and nonclay refractories, and structural clay products--are classified in Industry 327120, Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing;
• Calcining, dead burning, or otherwise processing (i.e., beyond basic preparation) clay or ceramic and refractory minerals--are classified in U.S. Industry 327992, Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing; and
• Oil shale mining and/or beneficiating--are classified in Industry 211120, Crude Petroleum Extraction.

Index entries for 212323

43 entries from the official NAICS alphabetic index that classify under this code.

• Andalusite mining and/or beneficiating
• Aplite mining and/or beneficiating
• Ball clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Bentonite mining and/or beneficiating
• Bleaching clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Brucite mining and/or beneficiating
• Burley mining and/or beneficiating
• China clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Clay bleaching
• Clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Clay, ball, mining and/or beneficiating
• Clay, ceramic and refractory minerals, mining and/or beneficiating
• Clay, fire, mining and/or beneficiating
• Clay, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
• Common clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Common shale mining and/or beneficiating
• Cornwall stone mining and/or beneficiating
• Cyanite mining and/or beneficiating
• Diaspore mining and/or beneficiating
• Dumortierite mining and/or beneficiating
• Earth, fuller's (e.g., all natural bleaching clays), mining and/or beneficiating
• Feldspar mining and/or beneficiating
• Fire clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Flint clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Fuller's earth mining and/or beneficiating
• Kaolin mining and/or beneficiating
• Kyanite mining and/or beneficiating
• Laterite mining and/or beneficiating
• Magnesite mining and/or beneficiating
• Nepheline syenite mining and/or beneficiating
• Olivine, non-gem, mining and/or beneficiating
• Paper clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Pegmatite, feldspar, mining and/or beneficiating
• Pinite mining and/or beneficiating
• Plastic fire clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Refractory minerals mining and/or beneficiating
• Rubber clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Shale (except oil shale) mining and/or beneficiating
• Sillimanite mining and/or beneficiating
• Slip clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Stoneware clay mining and/or beneficiating
• Syenite, nepheline, mining and/or beneficiating
• Topaz, non-gem, mining and/or beneficiating

212323 in other systems