NAICS 212230
What is the NAICS code 212230?
The NAICS code 212230 is applied to those industries related to Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining.
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) ores valued chiefly for their copper, nickel, lead, or zinc content. Beneficiating includes the transformation of ores into concentrates. Establishments primarily engaged in recovering copper concentrates by the precipitation, leaching, or electrowinning of copper ore are included in this industry.
Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 212230 in the North American Industry Classification System.
This industrial activity of NAICS code is structured as follows:
- 21 - Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
- 212 - Mining (except Oil and Gas)
- 2122 - Metal Ore Mining
- 21223 - Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining
- 212230 - Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining
Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 212230
NAFTA
This code is only used in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It´s to say, it is not used in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Related codes
The NAICS industry 212230 has the following cross-references:
- Developing the mine site, mining, and/or beneficiating iron and manganiferous ores valued for their iron content are classified in Industry 212210, Iron Ore Mining.
- Refining copper concentrates are classified in Industry 331410, Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Smelting and Refining.
Related activities
Below are some of the most common types of activities in the Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining industry (NAICS Code 212230):
- Blende (zinc) mining and/or beneficiating
- Calamine mining and/or beneficiating
- Cerussite mining and/or beneficiating
- Chalcocite mining and/or beneficiating
- Chalcopyrite mining and/or beneficiating
- Copper beneficiating plants
- Copper ore concentrates recovery
- Copper ore mine site development for own account
- Copper ores mining and/or beneficiating
- Copper-water precipitates
- Cuprite mining and/or beneficiating
- Galena mining and/or beneficiating
- Lead ore mine site development for own account
- Lead ore mining and/or beneficiating
- Lead-zinc ore mining and/or beneficiating
- Nickel concentrates recovery
- Nickel ore beneficiating plants
- Nickel ore mine site development for own account
- Nickel ores mining and/or beneficiating
- Smithsonite mining and/or beneficiating
- Sphalerite mining and/or beneficiating
- Willemite mining and/or beneficiating
- Zinc ore mine site development for own account
- Zinc ores mining and/or beneficiating
- Zinc-blende (sphalerite) mining and/or beneficiating
- Zincite mining and/or beneficiating
