NAICS Canada 212315—Limestone mining and quarrying

Where 212315 sits

1. 21 Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
2. 212 Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas)
3. 2123 Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying
4. 21231 Stone mining and quarrying
5. 212315 Limestone mining and quarrying

Description

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying dimension limestone, rough blocks or slabs of limestone, crushed and broken limestone, and related rocks.

What 212315 includes

• Grinding or pulverizing of limestone

What 212315 excludes

• Limestone fertilizer made in plants producing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials (see 325313 chemical fertilizer (except potash) manufacturing (can))
• Limestone manufacturing made by mixing purchased materials (see 325314 mixed fertilizer manufacturing (us))
• Producing lime (see 327410 lime manufacturing)

Example activities

• agricultural limestone, ground (except fertilizer)
• calcareous tufa, crushed and broken, quarrying
• cement rock, quarrying
• chalk mine or quarry
• dolomite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
• travertine, quarrying
• agricultural limestone, ground (except fertilizer)
• bituminous limestone quarrying
• building stone, limestone, rough, mining
• calcareous tufa, crushed and broken, quarrying
• calcareous tufa, dimension, quarrying
• calcium limestone, crude, mining
• cement rock, quarrying
• chalk mine or quarry
• chalk, ground or otherwise treated, mining
• chemical and metallurgical stone, limestone, crude, mining
• dolomite (limestone), crude, quarrying
• dolomite, crushed and broken stone, quarrying
• flux stone, limestone, crude, mining
• grinding or pulverizing of limestone
• lime rock, ground, mining
• limestone crushing, on contract
• limestone cutting (quarrying)
• magnesium limestone, crude, mining

212315 in other systems