Without a market, an Industrial Mineral deposit is merely a

geological curiosity. That is, without a potential market, there

can be no resource; without a good knowledge of the planned

market (volume, price and competition), there is no reserve.

Industrial minerals are essentially minerals and rocks mined

and processed for the value of their non-metallurgical

properties and for the benefits they impart to the products and

processes in which they are used. They are all around us, from

toothpaste to wallpaint, they are the silent hero of not just the

mining world, but also our every day world. Industrial mineral

mining and exploration takes place on various scales and

present opportunities on local and global scales. Using New

South Wales as a case study, we can see what global and local

markets exist for these minerals, peer into the past, as well as

predict what minerals might be useful into the future.

- Cameron Perks, Managing Principal at CPIM Consulting.

Minerals you didn't know you cared about - a

NSW perspective

May Meeting of the

Geological Society of NSW When: Thursday 12th May, 2016.

Where: Barbarian Room, The Rugby Club, Rugby Place (off 31

Pitt Street), Sydney.

Time: 5.30pm.

Free Entry.

Please join us for dinner following the meeting.