Operate · the United States

Underwriting: Copper, Nickel, Lead, and Zinc Mining

What public records can and cannot establish about running this business in the United States, dimension by dimension, with the gaps named.

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NOT SCORED. 65 of 100 rubric points are evidenced deterministically from public records; 10 have no producer. The ±3.1 interval measured elsewhere on this site is ARBITER's sampling variance and does not apply to a SQL query, which returns the same answer every time it runs.

IndustryNAICS 212230

Scopethe United States

RubricO1.0-20260804

Pricedfree — no account, no gate

74th percentile of 287 industries

Where this industry stands

Net formation, 5yr	Percentile	Reads as	Signal strength
+1.75%	74th of 287	forming faster than it is dying	ρ 0.57 across 4 backtested windows, 42.6pp decile separation

Economic Census 2022

What it costs to produce

Measure	Value
Margin on receipts	84.9%
Computed as	value added — receipts less cost of materials
Industry receipts	$17.0bn

30 firms · Census SUSB 2022

What firms here actually earn

Revenue band ($000)	Firms	Share	Cumulative	Labour share of revenue
<100	9	30.0%	30.0%	43252.5%
2,500-4,999	3	10.0%	40.0%	53.2%
5,000-7,499	3	10.0%	50.0%	31.4%
100,000+	15	50.0%	100.0%	8.9%

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65 of 100 rubric points evidenced

What this report can and cannot underwrite

Dimension	Weight	Evidence	Predicts?	Source
O1 · Demand density and recurrence	25	evidenced	predictive · ρ +0.57	US Census County Business Patterns
O2 · Payment evidence	15	partial	not backtested	USASpending.gov — US federal government work, public domain
O3 · Licence gate favourability	15	evidenced	not backtested	CareerOneStop / ARC, U.S. Department of Labor
O4 · Labour availability	15	evidenced	not backtested	BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024
O5 · Incumbent weakness	10	no producer	not backtested	none
O6 · Margin structure	10	partial	not backtested	US Census Economic Census 2022
O7 · Ceiling	10	evidenced	DESCRIPTIVE ONLY · ρ +0.05	US Census Business Dynamics Statistics — public domain

Every licensed occupation in this industry

Occupation	Share here	Concentration	Jurisdictions
Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers	2.57%	524.2×	49 of 56
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators	9.22%	29.5×	11 of 56
Continuous Mining Machine Operators	14.05%	1610.9×	10 of 56
Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other	3.53%	1856.3×	9 of 56
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines	7.53%	64.1×	2 of 56
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers	4.44%	4.3×	39 of 56
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers	3.79%	6.3×	16 of 56
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General	3.04%	3.3×	4 of 56

What this report cannot tell you

Gap
licence titles in this scope — none matched 'Continuous Mining Machine Operators', though it is licensed in 49 jurisdictions nationally. The title differs locally, or the record is held municipally.
occupation mix for NAICS 212230 — the labour statistics carry no rows at this level, so everything about occupations here, including the defining occupation and its licence gate, is measured at NAICS 212200, a broader grouping. Establishment counts are for 212230 itself.
licence coverage — the register holds 54 of 56 US licensing jurisdictions, and 2,504 of its records carry no jurisdiction at all. A count of 49 is out of 54 searched, not out of 56. The unsearched jurisdictions are not evidence of no licence.
bonding_required_usd — no producer, and not estimated