International Standard Classification of Education : fields of education and training UNESCO Institute of Statistics en Mining and extraction 0724 Mining and extraction is the study of assessing, planning, developing, and directing the extraction of minerals, oil and gas from the earth. Programmes and qualifications with the following main content are classified here: - Coal mining - Mineral technology - Mining of minerals - Oil and gas drilling - Oil and gas extraction - Raw material extraction Study of metallurgical engineering is excluded from this detailed field and included in 0715 'Mechanics and metal trades'. Study of geology is excluded from this detailed field and included in detailed field 0532 'Earth sciences'.