This subclass includes:
- underground or open-pit mining of coal, including extraction by liquefaction
- cleaning, sorting, crushing, compacting, etc., of coal, other operations related to the upgrading of the quality of the coal or its transportation and storage
- reprocessing of coal from coal dust.
Excludes:
- mining of brown coal (lignite), see
05.20.0
- extraction of peat, see
08.92
- support activities on a fee or contract basis incidental to the extraction of hard coal, see
09.90
- test drilling for the extraction of coal, see
09.90
- production of solid fuels in coke ovens, see
19.10
- production of coal briquettes, see
19.20
- activities for the development of the coal industry, see
43.12