NOGA 089100—Mining of chemical and fertiliser minerals

Where 089100 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 fertiliser minerals
5. 089100 Mining of chemical and fertiliser minerals

What 089100 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
• Extraction processes to produce lithium from brine

What 089100 excludes

• Extraction of salt, see 089300
• Roasting of iron pyrites, see 201300
• Manufacture of synthetic fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, see 201500

Index entries for 089100

6 entries from the official NOGA alphabetic index that classify under this code.

• Chemical minerals
• Colouring lands
• Earth colours (minerals)
• Fertiliser minerals
• Loam
• Natural barium carbonate

089100 in other systems