UK SIC 2007 · 08990
Other mining and quarrying n.e.c. (SIC code 08990)
Other mining and quarrying n.e.c. is UK SIC code 08990. It sits in division 08 (Other mining and quarrying) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 886 active UK companies list 08990 among their SIC codes. 762 of them list it first.
Division 08: Other mining and quarrying
The catch-all end of extraction. One code clears any useful size, 08990, other mining and quarrying not elsewhere classified, and the named codes beneath it (stone quarrying, gravel and sand pits, clay) each sit in the hundreds. That shape is itself informative: a lot of UK quarrying operates through small companies that describe themselves loosely rather than picking the specific code that fits.
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Who prospects SIC 08990 companies
Plant and heavy machinery dealers sell into this division, along with the finance and insurance behind that plant. Haulage operators, aggregate buyers and environmental consultants all have a reason to know who is active. Because the specific codes are small, the practical approach is to take the whole division rather than one code, then narrow by geography: quarrying is fixed to where the material is, so a regional filter is unusually meaningful here.
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SIC 08990 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 08, are the division, other mining and quarrying. Add the third and you have group 089; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section B, mining and quarrying, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
More on how SIC 08990 is built
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 08990 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 08990 are London (238), Coventry (19), Whitby (17), Birmingham (14) and Belfast (13). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 08990 as a filter
886 companies is 0.02 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 08990 most used of the 1 codes we track in division 08. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
More on filtering by SIC 08990
Almost everybody who uses 08990 means it: 762 of 886 companies put it first, leaving only 124 carrying it as a secondary code. That makes it an unusually clean filter. You can match on the code alone and trust that the companies you get really are in this line of work.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 27 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 34 per cent, so the remaining 66 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 08990 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 08990, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 886 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job. Every company you pull carries the Companies House record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 08990 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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About SIC 08990
How many UK companies use SIC code 08990?
886 active UK companies list 08990 (Other mining and quarrying n.e.c.) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 762 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Why does 08990 have more companies than the specific quarrying codes?
Because it is the catch-all for the division and companies reach for it when nothing else looks exact. That is common across SIC: the n.e.c. codes absorb everything that does not obviously belong elsewhere. It means a list built only on the named codes will miss most of the sector, so take the division rather than one code.
Do mining and quarrying companies need a permit recorded at Companies House?
No. Planning permission, environmental permits and mineral rights are handled by local authorities and the environment agencies, and none of it appears on the public record. Companies House holds the company, its officers and its filings. Use the public record to find who exists and is active, then check permissions separately.
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