“…Leading world producers in 2005 ranked in descending order of wollastonite output include China (395,000 tonnes), India (169,000 tonnes), the United States (115,000 to 127,000 tonnes), Mexico (27,100 tonnes), and Finland (16,800 tonnes) (Virta, 2005a). Potentially economic deposits have been identified (and some actually mined) in Australia, Brazil, Canada Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Greece, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, New Zealand, North Korea, Pakistan, Japan, Spain, Turkey, and Uzbekistan (Crooks, 1999;Dumont, 2005;Fattah, 1994;Lueck, 1997;Palfi, 2002;Parkison, 1990;Virta, 1994Virta, , 2003Watters, 1995).…”