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SCIAN 21—Mining

Sector · Sistema de Clasificación Industrial de América del Norte (2023)

Where 21 sits

21 Mining

Contains 3 narrower codes

Description

This sector comprises economic units primarily engaged in oil and gas extraction, as well as the exploitation of metallic and non-metallic minerals. For the purposes of this classification, mining includes quarrying, oil and gas well operations, and beneficiation operations such as crushing, screening, grinding, magnetic concentration, flotation, and leaching, aimed at obtaining concentrates and precipitates, as well as other preparations typically carried out in the mine. Also classified within this sector are the operation, for third parties, of mines, quarries, and oil and gas wells; exploration and mine preparation and conditioning activities; and support services exclusively for mining based on a contract or fee. The creation of the different levels of aggregation within this sector is based, in principle, on the production function criterion, as well as the incorporation of factors such as soil composition (which gives rise to different mineral combinations), the economic importance of the minerals, and the productive specialization of the economic units.

What 21 includes

Establishments primarily engaged in obtaining of natural gas condensates in gas fields; to the exploitation of copper by means of solvent extraction and electrolytic deposition; to the collection of salt by solar evaporation of seawater, lake brine and other natural brines; to the supervision of the drilling of oil and gas wells; to the installation, maintenance and dismantling of drilling towers; to the rental of machinery and equipment for mining with operator; to the contract removal of non-metallic and metallic minerals in spoil heaps, and the contract recovery of coal in spoil heaps and of other solid fuels composed mainly of coal.

Cross-references for 21

Establishments primarily engaged in the construction of water wells and works for oil and gas (23, Construction); to the production of refined and iodized salt; to the manufacture of charcoal; of coke, coal briquettes and other products derived from mineral coal produced outside the mine; to the refining of crude oil; to the manufacture of liquid hydrocarbons; to the enrichment of radioactive minerals; to the manufacture of chemical fertilizers; of cement, lime and gypsum; of products based on quarry stones by means of cutting, sizing, polishing, rolling and beveling; to the obtaining of clay integrated with the production of finished articles; to the production of pig iron; of ferroalloys; to the smelting, refining and refining of non-ferrous metallic minerals; to the recovery of non-ferrous metallic minerals and their aleactions; to the manufacture of carbon and graphite electrodes (31-33, Manufacturing industries); to the transport of crude oil and natural gas by pipelines (48-49, Transport, mail and storage); to the rental of machinery and equipment for mining without operator (53, Real estate and rental services of movable and intangible property), and to geophysical surveying services (54, Professional, scientific and technical services).