Industry benchmarks
What does a typical business make?
Medians across companies that publish a full P&L, by SIC code. Small companies rarely publish revenue, so benchmarks skew towards larger filers — read them as a guide, not a forecast.
Mining and quarrying
| Industry (SIC) | With P&L | Median revenue | Median profit | Median margin | Profitable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction09100 | 38 | £7.3m | £98.5k | 4% | 71% |
| Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate08110 | 24 | £14.6m | £1.2m | 7.7% | 79% |
| Operation of gravel and sand pits; mining of clays and kaolin08120 | 14 | £15.4m | £767k | 3.3% | 71% |
| Other mining and quarrying n.e.c.08990 | 12 | £20.6m | £647k | 4.5% | 92% |
| Support activities for other mining and quarrying09900 | 8 | £2m | £40.8k | 2.1% | 63% |
| Extraction of crude petroleum06100 | 7 | £11.6m | £577k | 5% | 71% |
| Deep coal mines05101 | 2 | £18.3m | £4.6m | 26.8% | 100% |
| Extraction of natural gas06200 | 2 | £13.7m | −£925k | 20.1% | 50% |
| Mining of iron ores07100 | 2 | £27.4m | £1.7m | 15.6% | 100% |
| Mining of other non-ferrous metal ores07290 | 2 | £21.3m | £1.8m | −56.6% | 50% |
| Extraction of salt08930 | 2 | £32.3m | £7.6m | 23.7% | 100% |
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