NAICS code 212323: Kaolin, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining
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.
- SBA small-business size limit
- 650 staff
Is your company small for 212323?
The SBA limit is 650 employees average number of employees.
What 212323 covers
Included
- 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
Use another code for
- Shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixtures: Industry 327110, Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing
- Shaping, molding, baking, burning, or hardening clay and nonclay refractories, and structural clay products: 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: Industry 327992, Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing
- Oil shale mining and/or beneficiating: Industry 211120, Crude Petroleum Extraction
Activities listed under 212323
- 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
Show all 43 entries
- 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
Questions
What is NAICS code 212323?
NAICS 212323 is “Kaolin, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining”. 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.
What businesses use NAICS code 212323?
Examples from the U.S. Census Bureau: 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; and Ball clay mining and/or beneficiating.
What is not included in NAICS 212323?
Businesses mainly 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; and 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.
What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 212323?
650 employees (average over the last 24 months), including affiliates. Source: 13 CFR 121.201, effective March 17, 2023.
What is the SIC code for NAICS 212323?
SIC codes 1455 (Kaolin and Ball Clay), 1459 (Clay, Ceramic, and Refractory Minerals, NEC) and 3295 (Minerals and Earths, Ground or Otherwise Treated, part), from the U.S. Census Bureau concordances (1987 SIC → 2002 NAICS, carried to 2022 NAICS).
What is the IRS business code for NAICS 212323?
212300 (Nonmetallic mineral mining & quarrying) on Schedule C, line B, from the IRS list of principal business codes. The IRS code covers NAICS 212311–212390.
How do I find government contracts for NAICS 212323?
Federal agencies put a NAICS code on each solicitation in SAM.gov, and some states and cities use NAICS codes too. Add 212323 to your SAM.gov registration and to your bid alerts; PublicBeam emails new bids for the codes you choose every morning.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS (public domain). PublicBeam is independent and not affiliated with the Census Bureau or any agency. Always check the NAICS code in the official notice before you bid.