This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) developing mine sites, mining, and/or beneficiating (i.e., preparing) iron ores and manganiferous ores valued chiefly for their iron content and/or (2) producing sinter iron ore (except iron ore produced in iron and steel mills) and other iron ore agglomerates.

Including:

• Agglomerates, iron ore, beneficiating
• Briquets, iron, mining and/or beneficiating
• Brown ore mining and/or beneficiating
• Hematite mining and/or beneficiating
• Iron ore (e.g., hematite, magnetite, siderite, taconite) mining and/or beneficiating
• Iron ore agglomerates mining and/or beneficiating
• Iron ore beneficiating plants (e.g., agglomeration, sintering)
• Iron ore mine site development for own account
• Iron ore, blocked, mining and/or beneficiating
• Limonite mining and/or beneficiating
• Manganiferous ores valued for iron content, mining and/or beneficiating
• Siderite mining and/or beneficiating
• Sintered iron ore produced at the mine
• Taconite concentrates or agglomerates beneficiating
• Taconite ores mining and/or beneficiating