Group
Class
0990 Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
Latest release
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)
Reference period
2006 (Revision 2.0)
Released
26/06/2013
0990 Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
This class consists of units mainly engaged in mining or quarrying non-metallic minerals, except construction materials.
Primary activities
- Abrasives mining
- Alabaster mining
- Alum mining
- Alunite mining
- Barite mining
- Chrysoprase mining
- Diamond mining
- Diatomite mining
- Felspar quarrying
- Flint quarrying
- Fluorspar mining
- Gemstone mining
- Glauconite mining
- Graphite mining
- Green sand mining
- Gypsum mining
- Horticultural peat extraction
- Jade mining
- Kyanite mining
- Lithium mineral mining
- Magnesite mining
- Mica mining
- Mineral pigment mining n.e.c.
- Opal mining
- Phosphate rock mining
- Quartz quarrying n.e.c.
- Salt harvesting
- Silica mining (for industrial purposes)
- Talc quarrying
- Vermiculite mining
- Zeolite mining
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- cutting peat as a result of the removal of overburden from brown coal mines are included in Class 0600 Coal Mining;
- refining salt are included in Class 1199 Other Food Product Manufacturing n.e.c.; and
- gemstone cutting are included in Class 2591 Jewellery and Silverware Manufacturing.