Minerals (MTX) 8-K Minerals Technologies Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend

	EXHIBIT 99.1
	News
For Immediate Release	Contact:
January 20, 2016	Rick Honey
	(212) 878-1831

MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. DECLARES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND

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NEW YORK, January 20, 2016—Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MTX) today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.05 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on March 10, 2016 to stockholders of record on February 19, 2016.

New York-based Minerals Technologies Inc. is a resource- and technology-based growth company that develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services. MTI serves the paper, foundry, steel, environmental, energy, polymer and consumer products industries. The company reported sales of $1.725 billion in 2014.

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