SIC Industry: 1221 Bituminous Coal and Lignite Surface Mining

Industry: 1221—Bituminous Coal and Lignite Surface Mining

Establishments primarily engaged in producing bituminous coal or lignite at surface mines or in developing bituminous coal or lignite surface mines. This industry includes auger mining, strip mining, culm bank mining, and other surface mining, by owners or lessees or by establishments which have complete responsibility for operating bituminous coal and lignite surface mines for others on a contract or fee basis. Bituminous coal and lignite preparation plants performing such activities as cleaning, crushing, screening or sizing are included if operated in conjunction with a mine site, or if operated independently of any type of mine.

Brown coal mining	Preparation plants, bituminous coal or lignite
Cleaning plants, bituminous coal	Screening plants, bituminous coal
Coal mining, bituminous: surface	Semianthracite surface mining
Coal preparation plants, bituminous or lignite	Semibituminous coal surface mining
Crushing plants, bituminous coal	Strip mining, bituminous coal: except on a contract basis
Culm bank recovery, bituminous coal or lignite: except on a contract	Strip mining, lignite: except on a contract basis
Hard coal surface mining, except Pennsylvania anthracite	Subbituminous coal surface mining
Lignite mining	Washeries, bituminous coal or lignite

Codes	Titles	Total Marketable US Businesses
1221	Bituminous Coal and Lignite-surface Mining	560
122100	Bituminous coal and lignite-surface mining	293
12210000	Bituminous coal and lignite-surface mining	293
122101	Bituminous coal surface mining	223
12210100	Bituminous coal surface mining	79
12210101	Auger mining, bituminous	8
12210102	Culm bank mining	0
12210103	Strip mining, bituminous	63
12210104	Strip mining, lignite	5
12210105	Surface mining, bituminous, nec	62
12210106	Surface mining, lignite, nec	6
122102	Bituminous coal and lignite loading and preparation	44
12210200	Bituminous coal and lignite loading and preparation	3
12210201	Coal preparation plant, bituminous or lignite	36
12210202	Unit train loading facility, bituminous or lignite	5