ABSTRACT
Variety of industrial minerals is mined in Poland, starting with solid rocks through clastic rocks to cohesive (clayey) rocks. The industrial minerals industry is able to supply the national economy, and especially building and construction industries, with all needed raw materials and products. Quarrying, which occupies the dominant position in domestic industrial minerals production, is expected to not only to maintain the current output, but also to increase it considerably. More aggregates and other quarried products will be needed to facilitate road construction, construction of industrial and public facilities, and new homes. In spite of an increasing demand for raw materials as well as their ample reserves, further expansion of quarrying is still hampered by numerous obstacles. Among these are economical, social, sociological and urban factors. Together these factors result in high cost of industrial minerals that, in turn, limits the ability to export them and results in increasing imports.
