not only do we offer comprehensive and
candid market  assessments, but we are
completely dedicated to the indispensable
world of industrial minerals.

The company has carried out numerous assignments on all aspects of the industrial minerals market: worldwide and regional market evaluations, company profiles, assessment of acquisition opportunities, determination of exploration targets, development of marketing plans, determining specification requirements by industry, and also preparing and producing investment promotion documents. In short, Peter W. Harben Inc. offers expertise in everything from production to publications, estimates to editing, consulting to conferencing - and we do so with a professional regard for budgets and deadlines.

The company is headed by Peter Harben, a former American Editor of Industrial Minerals journal based in London and then New York. Peter has thirty years of experience in the field of industrial minerals and their international markets. He is the recipient of SME’s prestigious Hal Williams Hardinge Award for 2005 “For outstanding achievement and service to the profession by describing the geology of worldwide industrial minerals deposits; setting an industry standard with the Industrial Minerals HandyBook; and making significant contributions to the field of industrial minerals marketing and research.”

Without a market, a deposit is merely a geological curiosity . .