Sector
Mining & quarrying
8,623 UK companies classified under mining & quarrying. Public register information only.
Sector insights
Mining & quarrying in the United Kingdom
Counts over the Companies House register as loaded on 2026-09-14. Dissolved companies are excluded. No financial figures are involved.
8,623Companies on the register
0.2%of UK companies5,503,259 across all sectors
9 yearsMedian company age6 years across all sectors
2.8%In insolvency proceedings1.9% across all sectors
New companies per year
How old they are
Mining & quarrying
All sectors
- Under 3 years 20%
- 3 to 9 years 32%
- 10 to 19 years 27%
- 20 years or more 21%
8.1% carry a proposal to strike off (7.3% across all sectors). That is mostly dormant companies being removed, so it is not counted as insolvency.
What they do
- Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction SIC 091003,33939%
- Extraction of crude petroleum SIC 061001,32715%
- Other mining and quarrying n.e.c. SIC 0899086810%
- Support activities for other mining and quarrying SIC 099008479.8%
- Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals SIC 089105095.9%
- Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate SIC 081104845.6%
- Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores SIC 072904104.8%
- Operation of gravel and sand pits; mining of clays and kaolin SIC 081203183.7%
- Extraction of natural gas SIC 062002773.2%
- Mining of iron ores SIC 07100841.0%
- Open cast coal working SIC 05102570.7%
- Deep coal mines SIC 05101310.4%
Where they are registered
- 1,88422%
- 5055.9%
- 1882.2%
- 1671.9%
- 1291.5%
- 1231.4%
- 941.1%
- 921.1%
- 871.0%
- 750.9%
Legal forms
- Private Limited Company8,42298%
- Public Limited Company1531.8%
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)220.3%
- Private Unlimited Company130.2%
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)100.1%
- Community Interest Company2<0.1%
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