Archive:Mining of metal ores statistics - NACE Rev. 2
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This article presents an overview of statistics for the mining of metal ores in the European Union (EU), covering NACE Rev. 2 Division 07.
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Main statistical findings
Structural profile
There were approximately 270 enterprises operating with mining of metal ores (Division 07) as their main activity in the EU-27 in 2010. Around 42.0 thousand persons were employed in the mining of metal ores in the EU-27 in 2009, equivalent to 6.5 % of all persons employed in mining and quarrying (Section B). They generated EUR 3.2 billion of value added which was 4.4 % of the mining and quarrying total.
The apparent labour productivity of the EU-27’s mining of metal ores sector in 2009 was EUR 75.6 thousand per person employed, well above the non-financial business economy average of EUR 40.5 thousand per person employed and the mining and quarrying average of EUR 111.9 thousand per person employed. Despite this high apparent labour productivity, average personnel costs within the EU-27’s mining of metal ores sector were not high, averaging EUR 32.6 thousand per employee in 2009 which was only slightly above the EUR 30.2 thousand per employee average for the non-financial business economy. Apparent labour productivity was equivalent to 231.6 % of the average personnel costs (this is the wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio) in the EU-27’s mining of metal ores sector in 2009, a level that was well above the non-financial business economy average (134.2 %) but below the mining and quarrying average (327.7 %). The gross operating rate (which is the gross operating surplus in relation to turnover) stood at 31.1 % for the EU-27’s mining of metal ores sector in 2009, around three times as high as the non-financial business economy average (9.8 %) and above the 26.4 % average for the whole of the mining and quarrying sector.
Sectoral analysis
The sector is composed of the mining of iron ores (Group 07.1) and the mining of non-ferrous metal ores (Group 07.2). Few data are available for iron ore mining, while for the mining of non-ferrous metal ores data are available for turnover and some labour input indicators. The mining of non-ferrous metal ores employed around 38.8 thousand persons in 2010, indicating therefore that it was by far the larger of the two subsectors. The mining of non-ferrous metal ores is itself composed of two activities, namely the mining of uranium and thorium ores (Class 07.21) and the much larger mining of other non-ferrous metal ores (Class 07.29). The mining of other non-ferrous metal ores generated EUR 4.5 billion of value added in 2010, up from EUR 2.8 billion in 2009, when its share of sectoral value added stood at 87.3 %.
Country analysis
Data availability for the EU Member States is relatively poor and so it is difficult to make an assessment of the relative size and importance of the mining of metal ores sector. Nevertheless, it can be noted that Bulgaria and Romania had relatively large metal ore mining sectors, as did Finland. The wage-adjusted labour productivity ratio in this sector was particularly high in Bulgaria, where it reached 580.2 %, higher than in any other NACE division in the Bulgarian non-financial business economy in 2010. Furthermore, the wage-adjusted labour productivity ratios of Spain and Finland in this sector were the second highest such ratios within their respective non-financial business economies.
Size class analysis
The enterprise size structure of the EU-27’s mining of metal ores sector is almost completely dominated by large enterprises (employing 250 or more persons) — 94.0 % of sectoral value added was concentrated within large enterprises in 2009. For comparison, the non-financial business economy average for large enterprise in 2009 was a two fifths (41.2 %) share of value added.
Data sources and availability
The analysis presented in this article is based on the main dataset for structural business statistics (SBS) and size class data, all of which are published annually.
The main series provides information for each EU Member State as well as a number of non-member countries at a detailed level according to the activity classification NACE. Data are available for a wide range of variables.
In structural business statistics, size classes are generally defined by the number of persons employed. A limited set of the standard structural business statistics variables (for example, the number of enterprises, turnover, persons employed and value added) are analysed by size class, mostly down to the three-digit (group) level of NACE. The main size classes used in this article for presenting the results are:
- small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): with 1 to 249 persons employed, further divided into;
- micro enterprises: with less than 10 persons employed;
- small enterprises: with 10 to 49 persons employed;
- medium-sized enterprises: with 50 to 249 persons employed;
- large enterprises: with 250 or more persons employed.
Context
This article presents an overview of statistics for the mining of metal ores sector in the EU, covering NACE Rev. 2 Division 07. This division includes mining for metallic minerals (ores), performed through underground or open-cast extraction, seabed mining and so on. Also included are ore dressing and operations such as crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, calcining (thermal treatment) or leaching ore, gravity separation or flotation operations.
Non-ferrous metal ores include uranium and thorium ores as well as other non-ferrous metal ores such as aluminium (bauxite), copper, lead, zinc, tin, manganese, chrome, nickel, cobalt, molybdenum, tantalum, vanadium and precious metals (for example, gold, silver, platinum).
This NACE division is composed of two groups:
- the mining of iron ores (Group 07.1);
- and the mining of non-ferrous metal ores (Group 07.2).
Excluded are: the extraction and preparation of pyrites and pyrrhotite (Division 08, other mining and quarrying), the roasting of iron pyrites and enrichment of uranium and thorium ores (Division 20, chemicals manufacturing), the production of aluminium oxide, mattes of copper or of nickel, smelting and refining of uranium, and the operation of blast furnaces (Division 24, basic metals manufacturing).
See also
- Mining and quarrying
- Other analyses of the business economy by NACE Rev. 2 sector
- Structural business statistics introduced
Further Eurostat information
Publications
- European business - facts and figures (online publication)
- Key figures on European Business – with a special feature section on SMEs – 2011 edition
Main tables
Database
- SBS - industry and construction (sbs_ind_co)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics for industry (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_na_ind_r2)
- SMEs - Annual enterprise statistics by size class - industry and construction (sbs_sc_ind)
- Industry by employment size class (NACE Rev. 2 B-E) (sbs_sc_ind_r2)
- Annual detailed enterprise statistics - industry and construction (sbs_na_ind)
- SBS - regional data - all activities (sbs_r)
- SBS data by NUTS 2 regions and NACE Rev. 2, from 2008 onwards (sbs_r_nuts06_r2)
Dedicated section
Source data for tables and figures (MS Excel)
Other information
- Decision 1578/2007/EC of 11 December 2007 on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012
- Regulation 295/2008 of 11 March 2008 concerning structural business statistics