Freight Classes & Shipping Codes

Salt; Sulfur; Earths and Stone; Plastering Materials, Lime and Cement

Select the heading below that best describes what type of Mineral product is being shipped.

Note: Mineral shipments under 150 lbs. may be shipped as parcels by common carrier such as UPS, Canpar Express and FedEx Express (over 150 lbs. use ShipNerd LTL Freight service).

CodeDescription
2501Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anticaking or freeflowing agents; sea water.
2502Unroasted iron pyrites.
2503Sulphur of all kinds, other than sublimed sulphur, precipitated sulphur and colloidal sulphur.
2504Natural graphite.
2505Natural sands of all kinds, whether or not coloured, other than metalbearing sands of Chapter 26.
2506Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.
2507Kaolin and other kaolinic clays, whether or not calcined.
2508Other clays (not including expanded clays of heading 68.06), andalusite, kyanite and sillimanite, whether or not calcined; mullite; chamotte or dinas earths.
2509Chalk.
2510Natural calcium phosphates, natural aluminium calcium phosphates and phosphatic chalk.
2511Natural barium sulphate (barytes); natural barium carbonate (witherite), whether or not calcined, other than barium oxide of heading 28.16.
2512Siliceous fossil meals (for example, kieselguhr, tripolite and diatomite) and similar siliceous earths, whether or not calcined, of an apparent specific gravity of 1 or less.
2513Pumice stone; emery; natural corundum, natural garnet and other natural abrasives, whether or not heattreated.
2514Slate, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.
2515Marble, travertine, ecaussine and other calcareous monumental or building stone of an apparent specific gravity of 2.5 or more, and alabaster, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (inc
2516Granite, porphyry, basalt, sandstone and other monumental or building stone, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape.
2517Pebbles, gravel, broken or crushed stone, of a kind commonly used for concrete aggregates, for road metalling or for railway or other ballast, shingle and flint, whether or not heattreated; macadam of slag, dross or similar industrial waste, whether or n
2518Dolomite, whether or not calcined or sintered, including dolomite roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; dolomite ramming mix.
2519Natural magnesium carbonate (magnesite); fused magnesia; deadburned (sintered) magnesia, whether or not containing small quantities of other oxides added before sintering; other magnesium oxide, whether or not pure.
2520Gypsum; anhydrite; plasters (consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate) whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders.
2521Limestone flux; limestone and other calcareous stone, of a kind used for the manufacture of lime or cement.
2522Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime, other than calcium oxide and hydroxide of heading 28.25.
2523Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers.
2524Asbestos.
2525Mica, including spliiting; mica waste.
2526Natural steatite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape; talc.
2528Natural borates and concentrates thereof (whether or not calcined), but not including borates separated from natural brine; natural boric acid containing not more than 85 % of H3BO3 calculated on the dry weight.
2529Feldspar; leucite, nepheline and nepheline syenite; fluorspar.
2530Mineral substances not elsewhere specified or included.