The Ohio Aggregates & Industrial Minerals Association is the trade association in Ohio that represents all of the state's mining operations, except coal. These commodities include mostly construction materials, both natural and manmade, such as aggregates (which are sand, gravel, slag, and crushed limestone, dolomite, and sandstone), salt, clay, shale, gypsum, industrial sand, building stone, lime, cement, and recycled concrete.

EARTH SCIENCE LINKS

American Geological Institute is a nonprofit federation of 44geoscientific and professional associations. http://www.agiweb.org/

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN): http://www.ciesin.org/

Destination Earth: http://www.earth.nasa.gov/

Earth Science & Map Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/

For Kids Only, Earth Science Enterprise: http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/

Geological Survey of Canada Educational Sites: http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/education_e.php

Mineral Information Institute: www.mii.org

National Earth Science Teachers Association: http://www.nestanet.org/

NASA EarthKam: http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/

Ohio Educational Association: http://www.ohea.org/default.aspx

Oregon Educational Association, Science/Technology/Math: http://www.oregoned.org/cgi-bin/resources_links.asp?TopicID=81

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME): http://www.smenet.org/

USGS http://www.usgs.gov/education/

USGS Home Page http://www.usgs.gov/

OVERSEAS EARTH SCIENCE LINKS

Links for Mineralogists. This is a really great site sponsored by the University of Würzburg, Germany http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/links.html

International Association of Sedimentologists http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/uk/society/ias/

The Geological Society of the UK. A good link with pages of Teachers Resources. http://wwwgeolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=geohome

Mineral Collectors Cub, sponsored by the Mineralogy Club of Antwerp, Belgium, listing many mineral clubs in Europe and the United States with lots of free mineral and earth science software downloads. http://www.minerant.org/collecting.html

For more specific information on aggregates and industrial minerals mined in Ohio, request a copy of the OAIMA's "Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Mined in Ohio". E-mail us mailto://rocks@oaima.org