About us

Malvern Minerals has half of a century of timely and creative product development. Around 1935 whetstone miners prospected central Arkansas for hard novaculite, but found instead the less cemented variety called tripoli, a white microcrystalline silica powder. In 1947 the Malvern Minerals Company was born. An industrious group of visionaries saw a future for tripoli, and marketed it as Novacite?, named after novaculite from the Latin root novacula, meaning "razor hone." Since 1977 two other deposits have been opened, assuring an on-going supply for MMC customers....