2022 Edition

national industry 212114

Surface Coal Mining

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) surface mining of bituminous coal, lignite, and anthracite coal; (2) developing bituminous coal, lignite, and anthracite coal surface mine sites; (3) surface mining and beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing) of bituminous coal, lignite, and anthracite coal; or (4) beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing), but not mining, bituminous coal, lignite, and anthracite coal.

The immediate parent of national industry 212114 is international industry 21211: Coal Mining

2022 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Underground mining and/or development of underground bituminous and anthracite coal mines--are classified in U.S. Industry 212115, Underground Coal Mining;
  • Providing support activities (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation) for the mining of coal on a contract or fee basis--are classified in U.S. Industry 213113, Support Activities for Coal Mining;
  • Manufacturing coke oven products in coke oven establishments--are classified in U.S. Industry 324199, All Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; and
  • Manufacturing coal products in steel mills--are classified in Industry 331110, Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 212114 - Bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, crushing, screening, washing, sizing)
  2. 212114 - Bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite surface mine site development for own account
  3. 212114 - Bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite surface mining and/or beneficiating
  4. 212114 - Brown coal mining and/or beneficiating
  5. 212114 - Coal beneficiating plants (e.g., cleaning, crushing, screening, washing)
  6. 212114 - Coal stripping (except on a contract, fee, or other basis)
  7. 212114 - Coal, bituminous, lignite, or anthracite, surface mining and/or beneficiating
  8. 212114 - Coal, brown, mining and/or beneficiating
  9. 212114 - Culm bank recovery, bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite (except on a contract basis)
  10. 212114 - Hard coal (i.e., anthracite) surface mining and/or beneficiating
  11. 212114 - Lignite surface mining and/or beneficiating
  12. 212114 - Preparation plants, coal
  13. 212114 - Semianthracite surface mining and/or beneficiating
  14. 212114 - Semibituminous coal surface mining and/or beneficiating
  15. 212114 - Strip mining, bituminous coal, lignite, or anthracite, on own account
  16. 212114 - Subbituminous coal surface mining and/or beneficiating
  17. 212114 - Tipple operation, bituminous coal mining and/or beneficiating

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 212111 212113
2007 212111 212113
2012 212111 212113
2017 212111 212113
2022 212114

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 1221 - Bituminous Coal and Lignite Surface Mining
  2. 1222 - Bituminous Coal Underground Mining
  3. 1231 - Anthracite Mining

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 212114, Surface Coal Mining:

  1. anthracite mining
  2. bituminous coal and lignite surface mining
  3. coal mining
  4. coal mining not otherwise classified anthracite
  5. coal mining surface
  6. coal mining surface anthracite
  7. coal mining surface bituminous coal and lignite
  8. coal mining underground
  9. mining
  10. mining except oil and gas
  11. mining not otherwise classified
  12. mining not otherwise classified not coal surface all other metal ore
  13. mining quarrying and oil and gas extraction
  14. mining surface
  15. quarrying underground mining

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