English China Clays

English China Clays
Company typePublic
IndustryMining
Founded1919
Defunct1999
FateAcquired
SuccessorImerys
HeadquartersSt 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.