Concept: Mining and Quarrying in the eagle vocabulary

Concept URI https://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/landcover/eagle/LUA-mining-and-quarrying
Preferred label Mining and Quarrying
Definition Mining and quarrying in the form of the extraction of minerals and materials occurring naturally as solids (coal, ores, gravel, sand, salt), liquids (petroleum), gases (natural gas) or biomass (peat). Extraction can be achieved by different methods such as underground or surface mining or extraction, well operation etc. Originally, in the HILUCS classes this use type was subdivided into three subtypes according to the criteria of mining products, which have been moved to the LCH block in the EAGLE matrix.
Notation LUA-mining-and-quarrying
Status Valid
Status Modified 2023-11-29
Accepted Date 2023-11-29
Not Accepted Date
isParameter
  • false
isHeader
  • false
code
  • LUA-1_3
parent
LC/LU Relevance
  • LU
Thematic Domain Context
  • MINE