Asbestos, Magnesite and Sepiolite Deposits of Turkey (1965)

Publication No. 121 of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey (Ankara, 1965). It lists Turkish asbestos, magnesite and sepiolite (meerschaum) deposits, plus talc and vermiculite, by 1:100,000 map sheet. It says it appears no workable quantities of spinning-fibre asbestos had yet been found, and that the asbestos mined and sold was tremolite and actinolite, with probable exceptions. It calls production over the previous 30 years very irregular, from 1500 tons to sometimes under 100 tons a year, enough only for local cement and paper factories.