Exhibit 10.16(b)

FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE

MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC. SUPPLEMENTAL SAVINGS PLAN

(AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 31, 2008)

WHEREAS,pursuant to Section 15 of the Minerals Technologies Inc. Supplemental Savings Plan (As Amended and Restated Effective December 31, 2008) (the “Plan”), Minerals Technologies Inc. (the “Company”) reserves the right to amend the Plan by action of its Board of Directors or its delegate and now wises to do so by the following amendment.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Section 15 of the Plan is hereby amended as follows effective as of the date hereof:

“The Company, by resolution of the Board or its delegate, shall have the right to amend the Plan at any time, and the Company’s General Counsel or his delegate shall have the right to amend the Plan for provisions that (i) are required by the Code or other applicable law, (ii) do not materially increase costs of the Plan to the Company or materially change Participants’ benefits under the Plan, or (iii) clarify ambiguous or unclear Plan provisions; provided, however, that no such action shall, without the Participant’s consent, impair a Participant’s right with respect to any existing account under the Plan.  Any amendment shall be in writing and executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company”

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company, by its duly authorized officers, has caused this FirstAmendment to be executed, on this 22nd day of December, 2014.

MINERALS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
BY:	/s/ Thomas Meek
	Thomas J. Meek
	Vice President and General Counsel