Without a market, an Industrial Mineral deposit is merely a geological curiosity. That is, without a potenal market, there can be no resource; without a good knowledge of the planned market (volume, price and compeon), there is no reserve. Industrial minerals are essenally minerals and rocks mined and processed for the value of their non-metallurgical properes 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 exploraon takes place on various scales and present opportunies 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 Consulng. Minerals you didn't know you cared about - a NSW perspective May Meeng of the Geological Society of NSW When: Thursday 12 th May, 2016. Where: Barbarian Room, The Rugby Club, Rugby Place (off 31 Pi Street), Sydney. Time: 5.30pm. Free Entry. Please join us for dinner following the meeng.