Division 07 - Mining of metal ores

Hierarchy of Division 07

• Section BMining and quarrying
• Division 07Mining of metal ores

Groups inside Division 07

• Group 071Mining of iron ores
• Group 072Mining of non-ferrous metal ores

List of terms related whith SIC Code 07

• dressing
• drying
• excludes
• extraction
• included
• includes
• manufacturing
• metal
• minerals
• mining
• operation
• operations
• ores
• production
• through
• washing

What activities does the Division 07 contain?

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

Also included are ore dressing and beneficiating operations, such as crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, calcining or leaching ore, gravity separation or flotation operations.

This division excludes manufacturing activities such as the roasting of iron pyrites (see class 2011), the production of aluminium oxide (see class 2420) and the operation of blast furnaces (see classes 2410 and 2420).