THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

05200

Mining of lignite

Definition

Lignite mining (brown coal), underground mining or surface mining, including mining by extracting crude oil from coal, washing, dehydrating, grinding, and compressing lignite to improve quality and facilitate transportation or storage.

Excluded from this code

  • Mining of high-quality coal, see subgroup 0510.
  • Peat Excavation, see subgroup 0892
  • Test drilling for coal mining, see subgroup 0990
  • Activities supporting lignite mining, see subgroup 0990.
  • Manufacture of lignite briquettes, see subclass 1920
  • Work to develop or prepare an area for coal mining, see subgroup 4312.

Foreign ownership

List 2: Restricted, Cabinet routeinherited from 05

Mining, including rock blasting or rock crushing

Mineral concessions are separately governed by the Minerals Act, which carries its own nationality requirements.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 2, Chapter 3 (12)Routes: Cabinet permission, US Treaty of Amity

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

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