05.1 – Mining of hard coal

This class includes: - mining of hard coal: underground or surface mining, including mining through liquefaction methods - cleaning, sizing, grading, pulverising, compressing, etc. of coal to classify, improve quality or facilitate transport or storage · This class also includes: - recovery of hard coal from culm banks · This class excludes: - lignite mining, see 05.20 - peat digging, see 08.92 - support activities for hard coal mining, see 09.90 - test drilling for coal mining, see 09.90 - coke ovens producing solid fuels, see 19.10 - manufacture of hard coal briquettes, ovoids and similar solid hard coal fuels, see 19.20 - work performed to develop or prepare properties for coal mining, see 43.12