09 Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
This subdivision contains the following ANZSIC groups:
091 Construction Material Mining
This group contains the following ANZSIC classes:
0911 Gravel and Sand Quarrying
This class consists of units mainly engaged in quarrying, washing or screening sand or natural gravel.
Primary activities
- Pebble quarrying
- River gravel quarrying, washing or screening
- Rock, ornamental, gathering
- Sand quarrying, washing or screening
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- quarrying, crushing or screening crushed or broken stone are included in Class 0919 Other Construction Material Mining; and
- quarrying silica for industrial purposes are included in Class 0990 Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying.
0919 Other Construction Material Mining
This class consists of units mainly engaged in quarrying, crushing or screening crushed or broken stone or in quarrying dimension stone or construction materials not elsewhere classified. This class also includes the quarrying of clay, marble, granite, limestone, slate or dolomite for use as a manufacturing input.
Primary activities
- Aggregate quarrying
- Bentonite quarrying
- Blue metal stone quarrying
- Brick shale quarrying
- Building stone quarrying
- Cement clay quarrying
- Chalk quarrying
- Clay quarrying
- Construction material crushing or screening
- Dimension stone quarrying
- Earth, soil, or filling quarrying
- Fullers earth quarrying
- Granite quarrying
- Limestone quarrying
- Marble quarrying
- Road fill quarrying
- Sandstone quarrying
- Slate quarrying
- Stone quarrying
- Tile clay quarrying
Exclusions/References
Units mainly engaged in
- quarrying river gravel are included in Class 0911 Gravel and Sand Quarrying;
- manufacture, within the same unit, of non-metallic mineral products (such as brick, glass, cement, slate paving, cut and polished ornamental stone) are included in the appropriate classes of Division C Manufacturing; and
- incidental quarrying of earth soil or filling carried out by a contractor at a construction site are included in the appropriate classes of Division E Construction.
099 Other Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
This group contains the following ANZSIC class:
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.