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NAICS codes / NAICS 212290

Other Metal Ore Mining: $392K in federal contracts in FY2025

The federal government obligated $392K under NAICS 212290 in FY2025, the 784th most of any code. Here is who bought it and how much of it was reserved for small business, then what GovSmith does with the code for a client.

Sector 21: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction / Industry group 2122: Metal Ore Mining

Small-business set-asides
GovSmith reads the set-aside dollars for the 150 largest codes; this one is outside them this year.

Source: USAspending.gov, FY2025 contract obligations under a small-business set-aside, read 2026-11-05.

Who buys under 212290

GovSmith lists the buying agencies for the largest codes on these pages. For this one, GovSmith’s Search reads every solicitation that carries the code, with the agency on each, and your vCM tells you which offices buy the work.

Who counts as small under 212290

SBA sets a size standard for every NAICS code: the largest a company can be and still count as small under that code.

The standard for this code is in SBA’s table at sba.gov, in receipts or in employees depending on the industry. GovSmith checks your company against it before it pursues any set-aside under this code.

The codes next to it

The other industries in group 2122, Metal Ore Mining. Buyers often file similar work under a neighbor.

What GovSmith does with this

GovSmith finds the opportunities under 212290 for you

Every solicitation, sources-sought notice, forecast row and recompete signal that carries NAICS 212290 lands in GovSmith's Search the night it posts, with the agency, the value and the set-aside on it. GovSmith AI matches it to your profile, your vCM qualifies it, and you see the shortlist. If this code is yours, the money above is your market.