213114 Support Activities for Metal Mining

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities), on a contract or fee basis, for the mining and quarrying of metallic minerals and for the extraction of metal ores. Exploration for these minerals is included in this industry. Exploration services include traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Performing geophysical surveying and mapping services for metallic minerals on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 541360, Geophysical Surveying and Mapping Services.
• Operating metallic mineral mines or quarries on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry Group 2122, Metal Ore Mining, based on the type of ore mined.
• Site preparation and related construction activities on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 238910, Site Preparation Contractors.
• Providing transportation activities on a contract or fee basis are classified in Sector 48-49, Transportation and Warehousing, based on the primary activity.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 213114

The Census index assigns these 17 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Blasting services, metal mining, on a contract basis
• Boring test holes for metal mining on a contract basis
• Draining or pumping of metal mines on a contract basis
• Drilling services for metal mining on a contract basis
• Exploration services for metal (except geophysical surveying and mapping) on a contract basis
• Metal mining support services on a contract basis (e.g., shaft sinking, tunneling, blasting) (except geophysical surveying and mapping, site preparation, construction, and transportation activities)
• Mine development (except site preparation and related construction contractor activities) for metal mining on a contract basis
• Mine shaft sinking services for metal mining on a contract basis
• Mine tunneling services for metal mining on a contract basis
• Overburden removal for metal mining on a contract basis
• Prospect and test drilling services for metal mining on contract basis
• Pumping or draining metal mines on a contract basis
• Removal of overburden for metal mining on a contract basis
• Shaft sinking for metal mines on a contract basis
• Sinking shafts for metal mining on a contract basis
• Stripping overburden services for metal mining on a contract basis
• Test drilling for metal mining on a contract basis

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 213114

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 213114, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $41 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 0990, 4312), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 09900Support activities for other mining and quarryingUK SIC
• 43120Site preparationUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

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