212315
212315 Limestone mining and quarrying
Extraction de calcaire • Canadian industry
What code 212315 includes
This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension limestone, rough blocks or slabs of limestone, crushed and broken limestone, and related rocks.
Activities & Examples
- agricultural limestone, ground (except fertilizer)
- calcareous tufa, crushed and broken, quarrying
- cement rock, quarrying
- chalk mine or quarry
- dolomite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
- travertine, quarrying
- agricultural limestone, ground (except fertilizer)
- bituminous limestone quarrying
- building stone, limestone, rough, mining
- calcareous tufa, crushed and broken, quarrying
- calcareous tufa, dimension, quarrying
- calcium limestone, crude, mining
- cement rock, quarrying
- chalk mine or quarry
- chalk, ground or otherwise treated, mining
- chemical and metallurgical stone, limestone, crude, mining
- dolomite (limestone), crude, quarrying
- dolomite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
Exclusions & Cross-References
- limestone fertilizer made in plants producing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials (See 325313 Chemical fertilizer (except potash) manufacturing (CAN))
- limestone manufacturing made by mixing purchased materials (See 325314 Mixed fertilizer manufacturing (US))
- producing lime (See 327410 Lime manufacturing)
Classification Hierarchy
- Sector 21 — Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
- Subsector 212 — Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas)
- Industry group 2123 — Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying
- Industry 21231 — Stone mining and quarrying
- Canadian industry 212315 — Limestone mining and quarrying
International Concordance
- ISIC Rev. 4: B0891* — Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals