Company type | Public |
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Industry | Mining |
Founded | 1919 |
Defunct | 1999 |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | Imerys |
Headquarters | St Austell, UK |
Key people | Lawrence Urquhart, (Chairman) |
English China Clays PLC, or ECC, was a mining company involved in the extraction of china clay, based in St Austell, Cornwall. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but in 1999 was acquired by Imetal.