Mining Global Market Report 2018

Coal mining industry primarily covers mining of bituminous, anthracite, and lignite coal by underground mining, strip mining, culm bank mining, and other surface mining techniques. It also includes the development of coal mine sites, and improvement of coal, including cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing of coal. The Coal, Lignite, And Anthracite Mining market in this report is segmented into coal mining, lignite mining and anthracite mining.

The copper, nickel, lead and zinc mining industries include companies developing mine sites, mining and converting ores into copper, nickel, lead or zinc content. Mining is either done through underground and surface mining techniques. Underground mining are used to reach deeper deposits which requires digging tunnels or shafts to reach buried ore deposits. Surface mining is used for less valuable deposits and is done by removing surface vegetation or layers of bedrock to reach ore deposits. 80% of zinc mining is extracted through underground mining whereas 90% of copper mining is done in open pits

The general mineral mining industry includes establishments involved in mining construction sand and gravel, industrial sand, kaolin and ball clay, clay and ceramic and refractory minerals. This market also includes companies carrying out potash, soda and borate mineral, phosphate rock, and other chemical and fertilizer minerals mining.

Metal ore mining industry primarily covers mining of metallic minerals and development of mine sites. It also includes ore dressing, and other beneficiating operations such as crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, concentrating, calcining, and leaching. The metal ore mining market in this report is segmented into gold ore mining, iron ore mining, silver ore mining, uranium ore mining, vanadium ore mining and all other metal ore mining.

Stone mining and quarrying industry primarily includes the development of mine sites, mining and quarrying of dimension stone such as rough blocks or slabs of stone, and crushed and broken stone. It also comprises stone beneficiating activities such as crushing, grinding, washing, screening, pulverizing, and sizing The market in this report is segmented into dimension stone mining and crushed stone mining.

Mining support activities comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing support activities on a contract or fee basis for coal, metal and nonmetallic mineral (except fuels) mining. Mineral exploration is the method of finding commercially feasible concentrations of minerals to mine. Mining support activities is classified as follows: i) Support Activities for Coal Mining, ii) Support Activities for Metal Mining and iii) Support Activities for Nonmetallic Minerals Mining.

Sulfur Mining include mining of sulfur and sulfur compounds that are used in manufacturing of black gunpowder, matches, and fireworks. Sulfur is a bright yellow crystalline material. It forms near volcanic vents and fumaroles, where it sublimates from a stream of hot gases.

Mining support activities comprise establishments primarily engaged in performing support activities on a contract or fee basis for coal, metal and nonmetallic mineral (except fuels) mining. Mineral exploration is the method of finding commercially feasible concentrations of minerals to mine.