Metal ore mining
This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in mining metallic minerals (ores). Also included are establishments engaged in ore dressing and beneficiating operations, whether performed at mills operated in conjunction with the mines served or at mills, such as custom mills, operated separately. These include mills that crush, grind, wash, dry, sinter, calcine or leach ore, or perform gravity separation or flotation operations. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 197
- Under 10 employeesA
- 42%
- Establishments · USA
- 329
- Employment · USA
- 40,118
- Payroll · USA
- $4.2B
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 197 Canadian establishments with employees, 42% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 212, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
Decade-long permitting and nine-figure capital. Aggregates and quarrying are the exception: local, haul-distance-bound and occasionally reachable.
- Who sets the price
- Global metal and mineral markets.
- The software it runs on
- Mine planning, geology modelling, fleet dispatch and safety systems.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
And what every business buys · 25 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Companies in this industry · 6
Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.
Who works here
The occupations employed in Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Tagged to this industry
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.
Inside this industry
4 rows sit directly beneath 2122, and 11 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21221 | Iron ore mining | 11 | screened at 2122 |
| 21222 | Gold and silver ore mining | 117 | screened at 2122 |
| 21223 | Copper, nickel, lead and zinc ore mining | 37 | screened at 2122 |
| 21229 | Other metal ore mining | 32 | screened at 2122 |
Alongside it, under 212 Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas)
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2121 | Coal mining | 29 | Coal Mine Development |
| 2123 | Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying | 1,028 | Aggregate Pit & Quarry |