07 - Mining of metal ores

This Chapter has been extracted from the ONS Explanatory Notes and provides a more detailed explanation of possible activities that could fall within the SIC Codes related to the Chapter.

This division includes mining for metallic minerals (ores), performed through underground or open-cast extraction, seabed mining etc. Also included are ore dressing and beneficiating operations, such as crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, calcining or leaching ore, gravity separation or flotation operations.

This division excludes:
- roasting of iron pyrites, see 20.13
- production of aluminium oxide, see 24.42
- operation of blast furnaces, see division 24

07.1 Mining of iron ores

07.10 Mining of iron ores

This class includes:
- mining of ores valued chiefly for iron content
- beneficiation and agglomeration of iron ores

This class excludes:
- extraction and preparation of pyrites and pyrrhotite (except roasting), see 08.91


07.2 Mining of non-ferrous metal ores

This group includes the mining of non-ferrous metal ores.


07.21 Mining of uranium and thorium ores

This class includes:
- mining of ores chiefly valued for uranium and thorium content: pitchblende etc.
- concentration of such ores
- manufacture of yellowcake

This class excludes:
- enrichment of uranium and thorium ores, see 20.13
- production of uranium metal from pitchblende or other ores, see 24.46
- smelting and refining of uranium, see 24.46


07.29 Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores

This class includes:
- mining and preparation of ores chiefly valued for non-ferrous metal content:
• aluminium (bauxite), copper, lead, zinc, tin, manganese, chrome, nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, tantalum, vanadium etc.
• precious metals: gold, silver, platinum

This class excludes:
- mining and preparation of uranium and thorium ores, see 07.21
- production of aluminium oxide, see 24.42
- production of mattes of copper or of nickel, see 24.44, 24.45

 

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