Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week

Aggregate is the component of a composite material that resists compressive stress and provides bulk to the composite material. For efficient filling, aggregate should be much smaller than the finished item, but have a wide variety of sizes. For example, the particles of stone used to make concrete typically include both sand and gravel.

The third week of July is designated as "Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week" in order to educate the public about, increase public awareness of, and recognize the important contributions of the state’s aggregates and industrial minerals industry to construction and transportation and to the state’s economic viability and to recognize the industry’s environmentally responsible stewardship of the state’s resources.

(Ohio Revised Code. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Chapter 5: STATE INSIGNIA; SEALS; HOLIDAYS. 5.2274 Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week.)

Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.77, HB 185, §1, eff. 5/22/2012.

Source: ohio.gov

In 2022 Ohio Aggregates and Industrial Minerals Awareness Week in USA falls on July 11.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Martin Cruz Smith

...industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.

Luis A. Ferre

The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it.

Tim Murphy

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Arthur Scargill