This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) surface mining of bituminous coal and lignite; (2) developing bituminous coal and lignite surface mine sites; (3) surface mining and beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing coal) of bituminous coal; or (4) beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, washing, screening, and sizing coal), but not mining, bituminous coal.

• Bituminous coal and lignite surface mine site development for own account
• Bituminous coal cleaning plants
• Bituminous coal crushing
• Bituminous coal or lignite beneficiating (e.g., cleaning, crushing, screening, washing)
• Bituminous coal screening plants
• Bituminous coal stripping (except on a contract, fee, or other basis)
• Bituminous coal surface mining and/or beneficiating
• Bituminous coal washeries
• Brown coal mining and/or beneficiating
• Cleaning plants, bituminous coal
• Coal beneficiating plants, bituminous or lignite (surface or underground)
• Coal, bituminous, beneficiating
• Coal, brown, mining and/or beneficiating
• Crushing plants, bituminous coal
• Culm bank recovery, bituminous coal or lignite (except on a contract basis)
• Lignite surface mining and/or beneficiating
• Screening plants, bituminous coal or lignite
• Semianthracite surface mining and/or beneficiating
• Semibituminous coal surface mining and/or beneficiating
• Strip mining, bituminous coal or lignite, on own account
• Strip mining, lignite, on own account
• Subbituminous coal surface mining and/or beneficiating
• Tipple operation, bituminous coal mining and/or beneficiating
• Washeries, bituminous coal or lignite

• Manufacturing coke oven products in coke oven establishments--are classified in U.S. Industry324199, All Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing;
• Underground mining of bituminous coal--are classified in U.S. Industry212112, Bituminous Coal Underground Mining; and
• Mining and/or beneficiating anthracite coal--are classified in U.S. Industry212113, Anthracite Mining.