NACE 08.91—Mining of chemical and fertiliser minerals

Where 08.91 sits

1. B Mining and quarrying
2. 08 Other mining and quarrying
3. 08.9 Mining and quarrying n.e.c.
4. 08.91 Mining of chemical and fertiliser minerals

What 08.91 includes

• Mining of natural phosphates and natural potassium salts
• Mining of native sulphur
• Extraction and preparation of pyrites and pyrrhotite, except roasting
• Mining of natural barium sulphate and carbonate (barytes and witherite), natural borates, natural magnesium sulphates (kieserite)
• Mining of earth colours, fluorspar and other minerals valued chiefly as a source of chemicals
• Guano mining
• Mining of medicinal mud
• Extraction processes to produce lithium from brine

What 08.91 excludes

• Extraction of salt, see 08.93
• Roasting of iron pyrites, see 20.13
• Manufacture of synthetic fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, see 20.15

08.91 in other systems