NAICS code 212390: Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, and/or milling or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) nonmetallic minerals (except coal, stone, sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals). Drylake brine operations are included in this industry, as well as establishments engaged in producing the specified minerals from underground and open pit mines.
- SBA small-business size limit
- 600 staff
Is your company small for 212390?
The SBA limit is 600 employees average number of employees.
What 212390 covers
Included
- Barite mining and/or beneficiating
- Phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
- Borate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Potash mining and/or beneficiating
- Peat mining and/or beneficiating
- Rock salt mining and/or beneficiating
Use another code for
- Mining or quarrying stone: Industry 21231, Stone Mining and Quarrying
- Mining, quarrying, or beneficiating sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals: Industry 21232, Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying
- Calcining, dead burning, or otherwise processing (i.e., beyond basic preparation) minerals, such as talc, mica, feldspar, barite, and soapstone: Industry 327992, Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing
- Manufacturing sodium carbonate, boron compounds, and/or potassium salts: Industry 325180, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing
- Manufacturing table salt: Industry 311942, Spice and Extract Manufacturing
- Manufacturing industrial salt: Industry 325998, All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing
- Manufacturing phosphoric acid, superphosphates, or other phosphatic fertilizer materials: Industry 325312, Phosphatic Fertilizer Manufacturing
- Providing support activities (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation) for the mining of nonmetallic minerals (except fuel) on a contract or fee basis: Industry 213115, Support Activities for Nonmetallic Minerals (except Fuels) Mining
Activities listed under 212390
- Abrasive stones (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice) mining and/or beneficiating
- Abrasives, natural (except sand), mining and/or beneficiating
- Agate mining and/or beneficiating
- Alabaster mining and/or beneficiating
- Alum, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Alunite mining and/or beneficiating
- Amblygonite mining and/or beneficiating
- Amethyst mining and/or beneficiating
- Apatite mining and/or beneficiating
- Arsenic mineral mining and/or beneficiating
- Asbestos mining and/or beneficiating
- Ash, volcanic, mining and/or beneficiating
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- Asphalt rock mining and/or beneficiating
- Asphalt, native, mining and/or beneficiating
- Barite mining and/or beneficiating
- Barium ores mining and/or beneficiating
- Barytes mining and/or beneficiating
- Borate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Borax, crude, ground or pulverized, mining and/or beneficiating
- Boron compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
- Boron mineral mining and/or beneficiating
- Brimstone mining and/or beneficiating
- Burrstones, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Calcined phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
- Calcite mining and/or beneficiating
- Catlinite mining and/or beneficiating
- Celestite mining and/or beneficiating
- Chasers mining and/or beneficiating
- Colemanite mining and/or beneficiating
- Corundum mining and/or beneficiating
- Cryolite mining and/or beneficiating
- Diamonds, industrial, mining and/or beneficiating
- Diatomaceous earth mining and/or beneficiating
- Diatomite mining and/or beneficiating
- Dragstones mining and/or beneficiating
- Dried phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
- Earth, diatomaceous, mining and/or beneficiating
- Emery mining and/or beneficiating
- Fertilizer minerals, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Fill dirt pits mining and/or beneficiating
- Fluorite mining and/or beneficiating
- Fluorspar mining and/or beneficiating
- Garnet mining and/or beneficiating
- Gem stone (e.g., amethyst, garnet, agate, ruby, sapphire, jade) mining and/or beneficiating
- Gilsonite mining and/or beneficiating
- Glauber's salt mining and/or beneficiating
- Grahamite mining and/or beneficiating
- Graphite mining and/or beneficiating
- Greensand mining and/or beneficiating
- Grinding pebbles mining and/or beneficiating
- Grindstones mining and/or beneficiating
- Guano mining and/or beneficiating
- Gypsite mining and/or beneficiating
- Gypsum mining and/or beneficiating
- Hones mining and/or beneficiating
- Humus, peat, mining and/or beneficiating
- Iceland spar (i.e., optical grade calcite), mining and/or beneficiating
- Jade mining and/or beneficiating
- Kernite mining and/or beneficiating
- Lepidolite mining and/or beneficiating
- Lithium mineral mining and/or beneficiating
- Marcasite mining and/or beneficiating
- Meerschaum mining and/or beneficiating
- Mica mining and/or beneficiating
- Millstones mining and/or beneficiating
- Mineral pigments, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Muriate of potash, mining
- Muscovite mining and/or beneficiating
- Native asphalt mining and/or beneficiating
- Natural abrasives (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice) (except sand) mining and/or beneficiating
- Ocher mining and/or beneficiating
- Oilstones mining and/or beneficiating
- Optical grade calcite mining and/or beneficiating
- Ozokerite mining and/or beneficiating
- Pavers mining and/or beneficiating
- Peat grinding
- Peat humus mining and/or beneficiating
- Peat mining and/or beneficiating
- Pebbles grinding
- Perlite mining and/or beneficiating
- Phlogopite mining and/or beneficiating
- Phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
- Pigments, natural, mineral, mining and/or beneficiating
- Pipestones mining and/or beneficiating
- Potash mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium bromide, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium chloride mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
- Potassium compounds, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium salts, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Pozzolana mining and/or beneficiating
- Precious stones mining and/or beneficiating
- Probertite mining and/or quarrying
- Pulpstones, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Pumice mining and/or beneficiating
- Pumicite mining and/or beneficiating
- Pyrite concentrates mining and/or beneficiating
- Pyrite mining and/or beneficiating
- Pyrophyllite mining and/or beneficiating
- Pyrrhotite mining and/or beneficiating
- Quartz crystal, pure, mining and/or beneficiating
- Reed peat mining and/or beneficiating
- Rock salt mining and/or beneficiating
- Rubbing stones mining and/or beneficiating
- Ruby mining and/or beneficiating
- Salines mining and/or beneficiating
- Salt, common, mining and/or beneficiating
- Salt, rock, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sapphire mining and/or beneficiating
- Scoria mining and/or beneficiating
- Screening peat
- Scythestones mining and/or beneficiating
- Sedge peat mining and/or beneficiating
- Selenite mining and/or beneficiating
- Semiprecious stones mining and/or beneficiating
- Shell mining and/or beneficiating
- Shredding peat mining and/or beneficiating
- Sienna mining and/or beneficiating
- Sintered phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating
- Soapstone mining and/or beneficiating
- Soda ash mining and/or beneficiating
- Soda ash, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium borates, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium carbonates, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium chloride, rock salt, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
- Sodium compounds, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium sulfate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Spar, iceland, mining and/or beneficiating
- Spodumene mining and/or beneficiating
- Staurolite mining and/or beneficiating
- Steatite mining and/or beneficiating
- Stones, abrasive (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice), mining and/or beneficiating
- Strontianite mining and/or beneficiating
- Strontium mineral mining and/or beneficiating
- Sulfate, sodium, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sulfur mining and/or beneficiating
- Sulfur, native, mining and/or beneficiating
- Talc mining and/or beneficiating
- Tripoli mining and/or beneficiating
- Trona mining and/or beneficiating
- Turquoise mining and/or beneficiating
- Ulexite mining and/or beneficiating
- Umber mining and/or beneficiating
- Vermiculite mining and/or beneficiating
- Volcanic ash mining and/or beneficiating
- Whetstones mining and/or beneficiating
- Wollastonite mining and/or beneficiating
- Wurtzilite mining and/or beneficiating
Questions
What is NAICS code 212390?
NAICS 212390 is “Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying”. This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, and/or milling or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) nonmetallic minerals (except coal, stone, sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals).
What businesses use NAICS code 212390?
Examples from the U.S. Census Bureau: Barite mining and/or beneficiating; Phosphate rock mining and/or beneficiating; Borate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating; Potash mining and/or beneficiating; Peat mining and/or beneficiating; and Rock salt mining and/or beneficiating.
What is not included in NAICS 212390?
Businesses mainly mining or quarrying stone are classified in Industry 21231, Stone Mining and Quarrying; mining, quarrying, or beneficiating sand, gravel, clay, and ceramic and refractory minerals are classified in Industry 21232, Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying; and calcining, dead burning, or otherwise processing (i.e., beyond basic preparation) minerals, such as talc, mica, feldspar, barite, and soapstone are classified in U.S. Industry 327992, Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing.
What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 212390?
600 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 212390?
SIC codes 1474 (Potash, Soda, and Borate Minerals), 1475 (Phosphate Rock), 1479 (Chemical and Fertilizer Mineral Mining, NEC), 1499 (Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Minerals, Except Fuels, part) 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 212390?
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 212390?
Federal agencies put a NAICS code on each solicitation in SAM.gov, and some states and cities use NAICS codes too. Add 212390 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.