Mining of metal ores

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

This division also includes:

• ore dressing and beneficiating operations (e.g. crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, calcining or leaching ore, gravity separation or flotation operations)

This division excludes:

• roasting of iron pyrites, see 20.13
• operation of blast furnaces, see division 24
• production of aluminium oxide, see 24.42