Mining of hard coal

This group includes: - Mining of hard coal: underground or surface mining, including mining through liquefaction methods; - cleaning, sizing, grading, pulverizing, compressing etc. of lignite to improve quality of lignite or facilitate transport or storage; - recovery of hard coal from culm banks.

This class excludes: - lignite mining, see 05200 (Mining and agglomeration of lignite); - Peat digging and agglomeration of peat, see 08920 (Extraction and agglomeration of peat); - Test drilling for hard coal mining, see 09900 (Support activities for other mining and quarrying); - Support activities for hard coal mining, see 09900 (Support activities for other mining and quarrying); - Manufacture hard coal briquettes or solid fuels, see 19100 (Manufacture of coke oven products); - Production of briquette or solid fuels containing lignite, peat, see 19200 (Manufacture of refined petroleum products); - Work performed to develop or prepare properties for coal mining, see 43120 (Site preparation).