Analysis
NAICS 212319 is the 2022 national industry for other crushed and broken stone mining and quarrying, part of 21231 (Stone Mining and Quarrying). Census lists 26 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 434 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 7,059 people at an average annual payroll of $85,870 per employee (74th percentile of national industries). 35% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include basalt crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating, bituminous limestone mining and/or beneficiating, bituminous sandstone mining and/or beneficiating and boulder crushed and broken mining and/or beneficiating, among 26 in all.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 8% and employment rose 6%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.
Its goods appear in 5 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2517 (pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind…) and 2521 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, mining, quarrying, or beneficiating crushed and broken limestone are classified in 212312 (Crushed and Broken Limestone Mining and Quarrying) instead.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises: (1) establishments primarily engaged in developing the mine site and/or mining or quarrying crushed and broken stone (except limestone and granite); (2) preparation plants primarily engaged in beneficiating (e.g., grinding and pulverizing) stone (except limestone and granite); and (3) establishments primarily engaged in mining or quarrying bituminous limestone and bituminous sandstone.
Illustrative Examples:
Bituminous limestone mining and/or beneficiating Marble crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating Bituminous sandstone mining and/or beneficiating Sandstone crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
Index entries (26)
- Basalt crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Bituminous limestone mining and/or beneficiating
- Bituminous sandstone mining and/or beneficiating
- Boulder crushed and broken mining and/or beneficiating
- Diabase crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Dolomitic marble crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Gabbro crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Ganister crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Granules, slate, mining and/or beneficiating
- Grits crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Limestone, bituminous, mining and/or beneficiating
- Marble crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Mica schist crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Onyx marble crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Quartzite crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Riprap (except granite, limestone) preparation plants
- Riprap (except limestone and granite) mining or quarrying
- Sandstone crushed and broken stone mining
- Schist, mica, crushed and broken stone, mining and/or beneficiating
- Serpentine crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Slate crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Stone (except limestone and granite) beneficiating plants (e.g., grinding)
- Stone, crushed and broken (except granite or limestone), mining and/or beneficiating
- Trap rock crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Verde' antique crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating
- Volcanic rock crushed and broken stone mining and/or beneficiating