2022 Edition

national industry 212323

Kaolin, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining

Overview

This U.S. industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site and/or mining clay (e.g., china clay, paper clay and slip clay) or ceramic and refractory minerals and (2) establishments primarily engaged in beneficiating (i.e., preparing) clay or ceramic and refractory minerals.

The immediate parent of national industry 212323 is international industry 21232: Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying

Illustrative Examples

  • Bentonite mining and/or beneficiating
  • Fuller's earth mining and/or beneficiating
  • Common clay mining and/or beneficiating
  • Kaolin mining and/or beneficiating
  • Feldspar mining and/or beneficiating
  • Ball clay mining and/or beneficiating
  • Fire clay mining and/or beneficiating
  • Shale (except oil shale) mining and/or beneficiating

2022 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • Shaping, molding, glazing, and firing pottery, ceramics, and plumbing fixtures--are classified in Industry 327110, Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing;
  • Shaping, molding, baking, burning, or hardening clay and nonclay refractories, and structural clay products--are classified in Industry 327120, Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing;
  • Calcining, dead burning, or otherwise processing (i.e., beyond basic preparation) clay or ceramic and refractory minerals--are classified in U.S. Industry 327992, Ground or Treated Mineral and Earth Manufacturing; and
  • Oil shale mining and/or beneficiating--are classified in Industry 211120, Crude Petroleum Extraction.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 212323 - Andalusite mining and/or beneficiating
  2. 212323 - Aplite mining and/or beneficiating
  3. 212323 - Ball clay mining and/or beneficiating
  4. 212323 - Bentonite mining and/or beneficiating
  5. 212323 - Bleaching clay mining and/or beneficiating
  6. 212323 - Brucite mining and/or beneficiating
  7. 212323 - Burley mining and/or beneficiating
  8. 212323 - China clay mining and/or beneficiating
  9. 212323 - Clay bleaching
  10. 212323 - Clay mining and/or beneficiating
  11. 212323 - Clay, ball, mining and/or beneficiating
  12. 212323 - Clay, ceramic and refractory minerals, mining and/or beneficiating
  13. 212323 - Clay, fire, mining and/or beneficiating
  14. 212323 - Clay, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
  15. 212323 - Common clay mining and/or beneficiating
  16. 212323 - Common shale mining and/or beneficiating
  17. 212323 - Cornwall stone mining and/or beneficiating
  18. 212323 - Cyanite mining and/or beneficiating
  19. 212323 - Diaspore mining and/or beneficiating
  20. 212323 - Dumortierite mining and/or beneficiating
  21. 212323 - Earth, fuller's (e.g., all natural bleaching clays), mining and/or beneficiating
  22. 212323 - Feldspar mining and/or beneficiating
  23. 212323 - Fire clay mining and/or beneficiating
  24. 212323 - Flint clay mining and/or beneficiating
  25. 212323 - Fuller's earth mining and/or beneficiating
  26. 212323 - Kaolin mining and/or beneficiating
  27. 212323 - Kyanite mining and/or beneficiating
  28. 212323 - Laterite mining and/or beneficiating
  29. 212323 - Magnesite mining and/or beneficiating
  30. 212323 - Nepheline syenite mining and/or beneficiating
  31. 212323 - Olivine, non-gem, mining and/or beneficiating
  32. 212323 - Paper clay mining and/or beneficiating
  33. 212323 - Pegmatite, feldspar, mining and/or beneficiating
  34. 212323 - Pinite mining and/or beneficiating
  35. 212323 - Plastic fire clay mining and/or beneficiating
  36. 212323 - Refractory minerals mining and/or beneficiating
  37. 212323 - Rubber clay mining and/or beneficiating
  38. 212323 - Shale (except oil shale) mining and/or beneficiating
  39. 212323 - Sillimanite mining and/or beneficiating
  40. 212323 - Slip clay mining and/or beneficiating
  41. 212323 - Stoneware clay mining and/or beneficiating
  42. 212323 - Syenite, nepheline, mining and/or beneficiating
  43. 212323 - Topaz, non-gem, 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 212324 212325
2007 212324 212325
2012 212324 212325
2017 212324 212325
2022 212323

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 1455 - Kaolin and Ball Clay
  2. 1459 - Clay, Ceramic, and Refractory Minerals, Not Elsewhere Classified
  3. 3295 - Minerals and Earths, Ground or Otherwise Treated

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 212323, Kaolin, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining:

  1. clay and ceramic and refractory mineral mining
  2. clay ceramic and refractory mineral not otherwise classified
  3. clay milling
  4. clay or shale digging
  5. kaolin and ball clay
  6. kaolin and ball clay mining
  7. mineral and earth ground or otherwise treated
  8. mining
  9. mining except oil and gas
  10. mining not otherwise classified
  11. mining not otherwise classified not coal surface kaolin and ball clay mining
  12. mining not otherwise classified not coal underground kaolin and ball clay mining
  13. mining quarrying and oil and gas extraction
  14. nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying
  15. quarrying underground mining
  16. sand gravel clay and ceramic and refractory mineral mining and quarrying

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