THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

08910

Mining of chemical and fertilizer minerals

ประกอบกิจการทำเหมืองแร่ ซื้อขายแร่ และโลหะ และวัตถุพลอยได้อื่นๆจากการผลิตแร่

What this activity covers

This activity involves the mining of various minerals used for chemical and fertilizer production.

  • Phosphate mining — Extraction of phosphate ores
  • Potash mining — Extraction of potash ores
  • Sulfur mining — Extraction of sulfur
  • Pyrite extraction — Extraction and dressing of pyrite ores
  • Barite mining — Mining of barium sulphate and carbonate
  • Borate mining — Mining of borate ores
  • Mineral extraction — Mining of minerals for chemical purposes

What companies here also do

Seen in real company registrations under this code — beyond the official definition, so licensing may differ.

  • Trading minerals — Buying and selling mined minerals

Not included here

  • Salt mining, see sub-category 0893
  • Roasting of iron pyrite, see subgroup 2011.
  • Manufacture of chemical fertilizers and fertilizers containing nitrogen as a compound, see sub-class 2012.

Foreign ownership

List 2: Restricted, Cabinet routeinherited from 08

Mining, including rock blasting or rock crushing

Mineral concessions are separately governed by the Minerals Act, which carries its own nationality requirements.

FBA B.E. 2542, List 2, Chapter 3 (12)Routes: Cabinet permission, US Treaty of Amity

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

Industry at a glance

as of 23 ก.ค. 69

The whole registered industry under this activity, every registration year, from the DBD DataWarehouse.

35
active companies operate here
฿915.9Mregistered capital, combined
฿1.5B
Sector revenue · 2025
+325% since 2023
฿-30482370
Net profit · 2025
7 profitable
202320242025

net profitrevenue

Foreign investment

new registrations · 2026 YTD
0%of new registered capital is foreign-held
฿0 foreign฿1.0M Thai

Based on few new registrations this year — read as a rough signal only.

New in 2026

1+100.0%

registrations, YTD

Registered capital

฿915.9M-95.8%

since year-end

Largest by revenue

Latest filed-year revenue, not a multi-year total

  1. 1Sahachat Setthakit Co., Ltd.฿1.0B
  2. 2Chinchana Industries (Thailand) Co., Ltd.฿192.3M
  3. 3Universal Mining Co., Ltd.฿129.9M
  4. 4Asia Pacific Potash Corporation Co., Ltd.฿30.1M
  5. 5Lek Visut฿21.5M

Source: Department of Business Development DataWarehouse. Financial figures are combined totals of companies that filed statements; revenue and profit shown for the latest three reporting years.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

6
Registered
since 2022
6
Still active
0
Dissolved
฿1.0M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 4 in 20222026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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