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Education is an important part of UMA's on-going activities. We have a major educational effort in the Utah public school system where we educate teachers, particularly fourth grade teachers, about geology, location of minerals in the state and the various essential uses of minerals in student's everyday lives.

This program titled, "Out of the Rock", helps satisfy the natural science curriculum required in the fourth grade in Utah elementary schools.

The Utah Mining Association’s Out of the Rock Education Program is administered by the National Energy Foundation (NEF).The Out of the Rock workshop helps satisfy the natural science curriculum required in the fourth grade in Utah elementary’s schools.

NEF has reached out to the education community with mining and mineral education materials and information to all grade levels for the Utah Mining Association since 1990.

UMA has participated in several educational-related conferences to further the understanding of the importance of mining in the world.