This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site, mining and/or milling or otherwise beneficiating (i.e., preparing) nonmetallic minerals (except stone, sand, gravel, clay, ceramic, refractory minerals, chemical and fertilizer minerals).

• Gypsum mining and/or beneficiating
• Soapstone mining and/or beneficiating
• Mica mining and/or beneficiating
• Talc mining and/or beneficiating
• Pyrophyllite mining and/or beneficiating

• Abrasive stones (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice) mining and/or beneficiating
• Abrasives, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
• Agate mining and/or beneficiating
• Alabaster mining and/or beneficiating
• Amethyst mining and/or beneficiating
• Asbestos mining and/or beneficiating
• Ash, volcanic, mining and/or beneficiating
• Asphalt rock mining and/or beneficiating
• Asphalt, native, mining and/or beneficiating
• Burrstones, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
• Calcite mining and/or beneficiating
• Catlinite mining and/or beneficiating
• Chasers mining and/or beneficiating
• Corundum mining and/or beneficiating
• Cryolite mining and/or beneficiating
• Diamonds, industrial, mining and/or beneficiating
• Diatomaceous earth mining and/or beneficitating
• Diatomite mining and/or beneficiating
• Dragstones mining and/or beneficiating
• Earth, diatomaceous, mining and/or beneficiating
• Emery mining and/or beneficiating
• Fill dirt pits mining and/or beneficiating
• Garnet mining and/or beneficiating
• Gem stone (e.g., amethyst, garnet, agate, ruby, sapphire, jade) mining and/or beneficiating
• Gilsonite mining and/or beneficiating
• Grahamite mining and/or beneficiating
• Graphite mining and/or beneficiating
• Greensand mining and/or beneficiating
• Grinding pebbles mining and/or beneficiating
• Grindstones mining and/or beneficiating
• Gypsite mining and/or beneficiating
• Gypsum mining and/or beneficiating
• Hones mining and/or beneficiating
• Humus, peat, mining and/or beneficiating
• Iceland spar (i.e., optical grade calcite), mining and/or beneficiating
• Jade mining and/or beneficiating
• Meerschaum mining and/or beneficiating
• Mica mining and/or beneficiating
• Millstones mining and/or beneficiating
• Muscovite mining and/or beneficiating
• Native asphalt mining and/or beneficiating
• Natural abrasives (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice) (except sand) mining and/or beneficiating
• Oilstones mining and/or beneficiating
• Optical grade calcite mining and/or beneficiating
• Ozokerite mining and/or beneficiating
• Pavers mining and/or beneficiating
• Peat grinding
• Peat humus mining and/or beneficiating
• Peat mining and/or beneficiating
• Pebbles grinding
• Perlite mining and/or beneficiating
• Phlogopite mining and/or beneficiating
• Pipestones mining and/or beneficiating
• Pozzolana mining and/or beneficiating
• Precious stones mining and/or beneficiating
• Pulpstones, natural, mining and/or beneficiating
• Pumice mining and/or beneficiating
• Pumicite mining and/or beneficiating
• Pyrophyllite mining and/or beneficiating
• Quartz crystal, pure, mining and/or beneficiating
• Reed peat mining and/or beneficiating
• Rubbing stones mining and/or beneficiating
• Ruby mining and/or beneficiating
• Sandstone, bituminous, mining and/or beneficiating
• Sapphire mining and/or beneficiating
• Scoria mining and/or beneficiating
• Screening peat
• Scythestones mining and/or beneficiating
• Sedge peat mining and/or beneficiating
• Selenite mining and/or beneficiating
• Semiprecious stones mining and/or beneficiating
• Shell mining and/or beneficiating
• Shredding peat mining and/or beneficiating
• Soapstone mining and/or beneficiating
• Spar, iceland, mining and/or beneficiating
• Staurolite mining and/or beneficiating
• Steatite mining and/or beneficiating
• Stones, abrasive (e.g., emery, grindstones, hones, pumice), mining and/or beneficiating
• Talc mining and/or beneficiating
• Tripoli mining and/or beneficiating
• Turquoise mining and/or beneficiating
• Vermiculite mining and/or beneficiating
• Volcanic ash mining and/or beneficiating
• Whetstones mining and/or beneficiating
• Wollastonite mining and/or beneficiating
• Wurtzilite mining and/or beneficiating