UK SIC 2007 05200: Mining of lignite

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 05.20 and NACE Rev. 2.1 05.20. ISIC Rev. 4: 0520.

UK SIC 2007 code 05200 is "Mining of lignite". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 05.20, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Mining of lignite". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the matching class is 05.20, "Mining of lignite".

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	05200	Mining of lignite
NACE Rev. 2	05.20	Mining of lignite
NACE Rev. 2.1	05.20	Mining of lignite
ISIC Rev. 4	0520

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - mining of lignite (brown coal): underground or surface mining, including mining through liquefaction methods - washing, dehydrating, pulverising, compressing of lignite to improve quality or facilitate transport or storage

What it excludes

This class excludes: - hard coal mining, see 05.10 - peat digging, see 08.92 - support activities for lignite mining, see 09.90 - test drilling for coal mining, see 09.90 - manufacture of lignite fuel briquettes, see 19.20 - work performed to develop or prepare properties for coal mining, see 43.12

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.