UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant To Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 6, 2012
 

MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
   
    1-11430
   
25-1190717
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 
(Commission File
Number)
 
(IRS Employer
 Identification No.)

  622 Third Avenue, New York, NY
                
10017-6707
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
(Zip Code)

 
(212) 878-1800
 
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)


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Item 5.02
 
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
   
On March 6, 2012, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Minerals Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) received from William C. Stivers written notice of his intent to retire from the Board effective May 16, 2012, the date of the Company’s 2012 Annual Meeting.  In accordance with the Company's Corporate Governance Guidelines, in 2010, Mr. Stivers, who reached his 72nd birthday during such year, submitted his resignation to the Board. However, in light of the Board’s determination of the value that Mr. Stivers’s continuing service on the Board provides to the Company, the Board did not accept his resignation at such time and invited him to continue serving as a member.  Mr. Stivers’s decision to now retire is not the result of any disagreement with the Company.

 
 

 



SIGNATURES
 
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.



                                          
                                        
MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
   
(Registrant)
       
       
   
By:
/s/ Thomas J. Meek
   
Name:
Thomas J. Meek
   
Title:
 
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
     
  Date:  March 12, 2012