Industry Description
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining and/or milling, or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) natural potassium, sodium, or boron compounds. Drylake brine operations are included in this industry, as well as establishments engaged in producing the specified minerals from underground and open pit mines.
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Business Examples
Common types of business activities within NAICS 212391 - Potash, Soda, and Borate Mineral Mining are:
- Kernite mining and/or beneficiating
- Sulfate, sodium, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium borates, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Salines (except common salt) mining and/or beneficiating
- Borate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium compounds, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
- Ulexite mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium salts, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium compounds, natural (except common salt), mining and/or beneficiating
- Muriate of potash, mining
- Soda ash, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
- Potassium chloride mining and/or beneficiating
- Potassium bromide, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Sodium sulfate, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Glauber's salt mining and/or beneficiating
- Alum, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Potash mining and/or beneficiating
- Probertite mining and/or quarrying
- Boron compounds prepared at beneficiating plants
- Sodium carbonates, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
- Colemanite mining and/or beneficiating
- Trona mining and/or beneficiating
- Borax, crude, ground or pulverized, mining and/or beneficiating
- Soda ash mining and/or beneficiating
- Boron mineral mining and/or beneficiating
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Mineral & Phosphate Mining in the US (21239)
Revenue 2025
$8.6bn
Growth 2025
1.09%
Key Trends
The Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector has contributed significantly to this industry's noticeable decline
Industry profitability has remained volatile
Accelerating industrial production is expected to buoy the industry's short-term prospects
Products and Services
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For some business types, there may be a similar industry to 212391 - Potash, Soda, and Borate Mineral Mining that is a better classification match. Establishments primarily engaged in:
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NAICS Cross Reference
Manufacturing table salt--are classified in U.S. Industry 311942, Spice and Extract Manufacturing.
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NAICS Cross Reference
Manufacturing sodium carbonate, boron compounds, and/or potassium salts--are classified in Industry 325180, Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing; and
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NAICS Hierarchy 212391 - Potash, Soda, and Borate Mineral Mining
NAICS Code 212391 - Potash, Soda, and Borate Mineral Mining sits in the 2-digit Potash, Soda, and Borate Mineral Mining sector. NAICS codes can be 2- to 6-digits and the further along the hierarchy, the more detailed and specific the category will be. Learn more about the structure of NAICS codes
2 Digits: 21
Sector Title: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
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2111 Oil and Gas Extraction
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21112 Crude Petroleum Extraction
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21113 Natural Gas Extraction
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2121 Coal Mining
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2122 Metal Ore Mining
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21221 Iron Ore Mining
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21222 Gold Ore and Silver Ore Mining
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21223 Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining
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21229 Other Metal Ore Mining
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2123 Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
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21231 Stone Mining and Quarrying
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21232 Sand, Gravel, Clay, and Ceramic and Refractory Minerals Mining and Quarrying
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21239 Other Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
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2131 Support Activities for Mining
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