Talc produced from the Emirdağ deposit with an annual mine production of 500 t until 2005 has been used in the domestic market as a plastic filling material, but its domestic consumption has been limited due to insufficient investigations on the geological features of talc deposits and mineralogical, geochemical, and physical features of the talc minerals.
Moreover,
quality problems arose for the produced talc ores. In this
study, the aim is to i) investigate geological features of
the talc deposits; ii) identify mineralogical, geochemical,
physicochemical features of the talc mineral; and iii) determine potential uses of talc. This study is important in
terms of economic production of the Emirdağ talc deposit
since it is close to industrial cities such as Kütahya, Uşak,
Bilecik, Eskişehir, and Ankara.