This class includes:
- mining of hard coal: underground or surface mining, including mining through liquefaction methods
- cleaning, sizing, grading, pulverizing, compressing etc of coal to classify, improve quality or facilitate transport or storage
This class also includes:
- recovery of hard coal from culm banks
This class excludes:
- lignite mining, see CAEN 0520
- peat digging, see CAEN 0892
- support activities for hard coal mining, see CAEN 0990
- test drilling for coal mining, see CAEN 0990
- coke ovens producing solid fuels, see CAEN 1910
- manufacture of hard coal briquettes, see CAEN 1920
- work performed to develop or prepare properties for coal mining, see CAEN 4312