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Division ⛏ B Mining and Quarrying

07 — Mining of Metal Ores

07
Division
Mining of metal ores
SDMX: B07
Division Level
2 Depth
2 Children
4 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This division includes mining for metallic minerals (ores), performed through underground or open-cast extraction, seabed mining, and so on.

+ Also Includes

This division also includes: - ore dressing and beneficiating operations (e.g. crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, calcining or leaching ore, gravity separation or flotation operations)

✗ Excludes

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

Frequently Confused With

20.13
Manufacture of other inorganic basic chemicals
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 24
Manufacture of basic metals
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 24.42
Aluminium production
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Sub-categories

2
07.1
Mining of iron ores
07.2
Mining of non-ferrous metal ores
This group includes the mining of non-ferrous metal ores.

Related Divisions

Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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