051000 Mining of hard coal

This type includes:

• mining of hard coal: underground or surface mining, including mining through liquefaction methods
• cleaning, sizing, grading, pulverising, compressing, etc. of coal to classify, improve quality or facilitate transport or storage

This type also includes:

• recovery of hard coal from culm banks

This type excludes:

• lignite mining, see 052000

• peat digging, see 089200

• support activities for hard coal mining, see 099000

• test drilling for coal mining, see 099000

• coke ovens producing solid fuels, see 191000

• manufacture of hard coal briquettes, ovoids and similar solid hard coal fuels, see 192000

• work performed to develop or prepare properties for coal mining, see 431200