Non-Metallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying

**Exclusions/References:** - Units mainly engaged in - (a) cutting peat as a result of the removal of overburden from brown coal mines are included in Class 0600 Coal Mining; - (b) refining salt are included in Class 1199 Other Food Product Manufacturing n.e.c.; and - (c) gemstone cutting are included in Class 2591 Jewellery and Silverware Manufacturing. **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