In fact, every speck of all paints that we will encounter today, from that on our house, to the stripe down the middle of the road, to the interior of our offices and elsewhere, will be composed mainly of industrial minerals. Modern transportation is almost entirely reliant upon industrial minerals and this does not stop with just the car. Gasoline and lubricants depend on industrial minerals since the drill bit that originally discovered the crude oil was faced with industrial diamonds. Drilling fluids, used for ease of well drilling, are almost entirely made from barytes, bentonite, attapulgite, mica, perlite, and others. It is necessary to employ clays and zeolites in the catalytic cracking process for crude petroleum to arrive at gasoline and lubricants.
Concrete pavement is composed of cement and aggregates.
Cement is manufactured from limestone, gypsum, iron oxide, clays, and possibly pozzolan. Even asphaltic pavement or blacktop has industrial minerals as aggregates. The building we are about to enter is made from or of industrial minerals. If it is a concrete or stone or brick building it is entirely made from industrial minerals. If there are steel structural members the steel production process required fluorspar for fluxing, bentonite for pelletising and, perhaps chromite for hardening.