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The California Mining Association is a trade association for the mining industry in California with its roots traced as far back as the late 1800s.
The California Mining Association represents the breadth and depth of California's mining industry including producers of precious metals (such as gold and silver), industrial minerals (including borates, limestone, rare earth elements, clays, gypsum and tungsten) and rock, sand and gravel. CMA's diverse membership includes large and small mining operations located in an array of climate zones and diverse hypsographic locales throughout the state, bringing direct and indirect economic benefits to local governments and communities.
California is the second largest mineral producing state in the nation and the mining industry accounts for nearly $3 billion dollars of mineral production annually, with the minerals produced providing the resources needed for the continuing development of the state. In 1998 the average annual wage of a miner in California was $61,089.
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