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Meerschaum from Turkey reported at 1.517","Z=c; parallel","Commonly found as compact masses of microscopic needles resulting in a low-density masses. May be an important constituent of \"mountain leather\". Free-standing acicular crystals not found in many localities.\r\n\r\nMay be confused with palygorskite. Result...","Named in 1847 by Ernst Friedrich Glocker from the Greek, \"sepion,\" cuttle-fish bone, because of its low density and porous, bone like appearance. Originally named \u003Cem>meerschaum\u003C\u002Fem> by Abrahan Gottlieb Werner in 1788. Later translated as \u003Cem>l'Ecume de mer\u003C\u002Fem>. In 1794, the mineral was called \u003Cem>keffekill\u003C\u002Fem> by Richard Kirwan. Alexandre Brongniart called this mineral \u003Cem>magnesite\u003C\u002Fem> in 1807.","2025-10-16 09:45:08",[],[87,96,103],{"id":88,"name":89,"entrytype":9,"csystem":36,"ima_formula":90,"mindat_formula":91,"hmin":46,"hmax":92,"dmeas":93,"dcalc":94,"primary_image_id":95},1444,"Falcondoite","Ni\u003Csub>4\u003C\u002Fsub>Si\u003Csub>6\u003C\u002Fsub>O\u003Csub>15\u003C\u002Fsub>(OH)\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub> &middot; 6H\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>O","(Ni,Mg)\u003Csub>4\u003C\u002Fsub>Si\u003Csub>6\u003C\u002Fsub>O\u003Csub>15\u003C\u002Fsub>(OH)\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>&middot;6H\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>O",3,"1.9","2.54",54203,{"id":97,"name":98,"entrytype":9,"csystem":36,"ima_formula":99,"mindat_formula":100,"hmin":46,"hmax":101,"dmeas":102,"dcalc":11,"primary_image_id":11},41139,"Ferrisepiolite","(Fe\u003Csup>3+\u003C\u002Fsup>,Fe\u003Csup>2+\u003C\u002Fsup>,Mg)\u003Csub>4\u003C\u002Fsub>[(Si,Fe\u003Csup>3+\u003C\u002Fsup>)\u003Csub>6\u003C\u002Fsub>O\u003Csub>15\u003C\u002Fsub>](O,OH)\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub> &middot; 6H\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>O","(Fe\u003Csup>3+\u003C\u002Fsup>,Fe\u003Csup>2+\u003C\u002Fsup>,Mg)\u003Csub>4\u003C\u002Fsub>((Si,Fe\u003Csup>3+\u003C\u002Fsup>)\u003Csub>6\u003C\u002Fsub>O\u003Csub>15\u003C\u002Fsub>)(O,OH)\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>&middot;6H\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>O",2.5,"2.51",{"id":104,"name":105,"entrytype":9,"csystem":36,"ima_formula":106,"mindat_formula":107,"hmin":108,"hmax":108,"dmeas":109,"dcalc":110,"primary_image_id":111},2441,"Loughlinite","Na\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>Mg\u003Csub>3\u003C\u002Fsub>Si\u003Csub>6\u003C\u002Fsub>O\u003Csub>16\u003C\u002Fsub> &middot; 8H\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>O","Na\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>Mg\u003Csub>3\u003C\u002Fsub>Si\u003Csub>6\u003C\u002Fsub>O\u003Csub>16\u003C\u002Fsub>&middot;8H\u003Csub>2\u003C\u002Fsub>O",1,"2.165","2.22",14763,[],[114,115],{"id":88,"name":89,"entrytype":9,"csystem":36,"ima_formula":90,"mindat_formula":91,"hmin":46,"hmax":92,"dmeas":93,"dcalc":94,"primary_image_id":95},{"id":97,"name":98,"entrytype":9,"csystem":36,"ima_formula":99,"mindat_formula":100,"hmin":46,"hmax":101,"dmeas":102,"dcalc":11,"primary_image_id":11},[117],{"id":118,"txt":119,"latitude":120,"longitude":121,"country":122},4389,"Monti Pelati Nature Park, Bettolino, Baldissero Canavese, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy",45.4148405,7.7408561,"Italy",224,[125,129,133,137,142,147,152,157,162,166,171,176,181,185,189,194],{"id":126,"year":127,"html":128,"doi":11},16161667,1847,"Glocker, Ernst Friedrich (1847) \u003Ci>Generum et specierum mineralium, secundum ordines naturales digestorum synopsis, omnium, quotquot adhuc reperta sunt, mineralium nomina complectens [A synopsis of the genera and species of minerals, according to their natural orders, including the names of all the minerals that have yet been discovered.]\u003C\u002Fi>. Eduardus Anton. 348 pp. \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Farchive.org\u002Fdownload\u002Fgenerumetspecie00unkngoog\u002Fgenerumetspecie00unkngoog.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":130,"year":131,"html":132,"doi":11},16123284,1956,"Brauner, K., Preisinger, A. (1956) Struktur und Entstehung des Sepioliths. Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen: 6: 120-140. [in German]",{"id":134,"year":135,"html":136,"doi":11},523207,1959,"Brindley, G. W. (1959) X-ray and electron diffraction data for sepiolite. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  44 (5-6) 495-500 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='http:\u002F\u002Fwww.minsocam.org\u002Fammin\u002FAM44\u002FAM44_495.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":138,"year":139,"html":140,"doi":141},2234343,1966,"Van Olphen, H. (1966) Maya Blue: A Clay-Organic Pigment? \u003Ci>Science\u003C\u002Fi>,  154 (3749). 645-646 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1126\u002Fscience.154.3749.645'>doi:10.1126\u002Fscience.154.3749.645\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1126\u002Fscience.154.3749.645",{"id":143,"year":144,"html":145,"doi":146},145219,1974,"Nagata, Hiroshi; Shimoda, Susumu; Sudo, Toshio (1974) On Dehydration of Bound Water of Sepiolite. \u003Ci>Clays and Clay Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  22 (3). 285-291 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1346\u002Fccmn.1974.0220310'>doi:10.1346\u002Fccmn.1974.0220310\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1346\u002Fccmn.1974.0220310",{"id":148,"year":149,"html":150,"doi":151},145354,1976,"Rautureau, M.; Tchoubar, C. (1976) Structural Analysis of Sepiolite by Selected Area Electron Diffraction—Relations with Physico-Chemical Properties. \u003Ci>Clays and Clay Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  24 (1). 43-49 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1346\u002Fccmn.1976.0240105'>doi:10.1346\u002Fccmn.1976.0240105\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1346\u002Fccmn.1976.0240105",{"id":153,"year":154,"html":155,"doi":156},145603,1979,"Güven, Necip; Carney, Leroy L. (1979) The Hydrothermal Transformation of Sepiolite to Stevensite and the Effect of Added Chlorides and Hydroxides. \u003Ci>Clays and Clay Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  27 (4). 253-260 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1346\u002Fccmn.1979.0270403'>doi:10.1346\u002Fccmn.1979.0270403\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1346\u002Fccmn.1979.0270403",{"id":158,"year":159,"html":160,"doi":161},563356,1994,"D'Espinose de la Caillerie, J.-B., Fripiat, J. J. (1994) A reassessment of the 29Si MAS-NMR spectra of sepiolite and aluminated sepiolite. \u003Ci>Clay Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  29 (3) 313-318 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1180\u002Fclaymin.1994.029.3.02'>doi:10.1180\u002Fclaymin.1994.029.3.02\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1180\u002Fclaymin.1994.029.3.02",{"id":163,"year":164,"html":165,"doi":11},16967263,2001,"(2001) Sepiolite. \u003Ci>Handbook of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>. Mineralogical Society of America \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fwww.handbookofmineralogy.org\u002Fpdfs\u002Fsepiolite.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":167,"year":168,"html":169,"doi":170},395624,2007,"Post, J. E., Bish, D. L., Heaney, P. J. (2007) Synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study of the structure and dehydration behavior of sepiolite. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  92 (1) 91-97 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam.2007.2134'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam.2007.2134\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Frruff.info\u002Fdoclib\u002Fam\u002Fvol92\u002FAM92_91.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam.2007.2134",{"id":172,"year":173,"html":174,"doi":175},148329,2010,"García-Romero, E., Suárez, M. (2010) On the Chemical Composition of Sepiolite and Palygorskite. \u003Ci>Clays and Clay Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  58 (1) 1-20 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1346\u002Fccmn.2010.0580101'>doi:10.1346\u002Fccmn.2010.0580101\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1346\u002Fccmn.2010.0580101",{"id":177,"year":178,"html":179,"doi":180},129037,2011,"Giustetto, Roberto, Levy, Davide, Wahyudi, Olivia, Ricchiardi, Gabriele, Vitillo, Jenny G. (2011) Crystal structure refinement of a sepiolite\u002Findigo Maya Blue pigment using molecular modelling and synchrotron diffraction. \u003Ci>European Journal of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>,  23 (3) 449-466 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2011\u002F0023-2105'>doi:10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2011\u002F0023-2105\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2011\u002F0023-2105",{"id":182,"year":178,"html":183,"doi":184},396630,"del Rio, M. S., Garcia-Romero, E., Suarez, M., da Silva, I., Fuentes-Montero, L., Martinez-Criado, G. (2011) Variability in sepiolite: Diffraction studies. \u003Ci>American Mineralogist\u003C\u002Fi>,  96 (10) 1443-1454 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.2138\u002Fam.2011.3761'>doi:10.2138\u002Fam.2011.3761\u003C\u002Fa>","10.2138\u002Fam.2011.3761",{"id":186,"year":178,"html":187,"doi":188},129047,"Stathopoulou, Elizabeth T., Suárez, Mercedes, García-Romero, Emilia, Río, Manuel Sánchez Del, Kacandes, George H., Gionis, Vassilis, Chryssikos, Georgios D. (2011) Trioctahedral entities in palygorskite: Near-infrared evidence for sepiolite-palygorskite polysomatism. \u003Ci>European Journal of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>,  23 (4) 567-576 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2011\u002F0023-2112'>doi:10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2011\u002F0023-2112\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1127\u002F0935-1221\u002F2011\u002F0023-2112",{"id":190,"year":191,"html":192,"doi":193},148575,2013,"Suárez, Mercedes, García-Romero, Emilia (2013) Sepiolite–Palygorskite: A Continuous Polysomatic Series. \u003Ci>Clays and Clay Minerals\u003C\u002Fi>,  61 (5) 461-472 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1346\u002Fccmn.2013.0610505'>doi:10.1346\u002Fccmn.2013.0610505\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1346\u002Fccmn.2013.0610505",{"id":195,"year":196,"html":197,"doi":198},10365705,2014,"Post, J.L., Crawford, S.M. (2014) Uses of near-infared spectra for the identification of clay minerals. \u003Ci>Applied Clay Science\u003C\u002Fi>, 95. 383-387 \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1016\u002Fj.clay.2014.02.010'>doi:10.1016\u002Fj.clay.2014.02.010\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1016\u002Fj.clay.2014.02.010",[200,207,217,223,230,234,244,253,262],{"id":201,"source_url":202,"license_code":203,"credit_html":204,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":205,"original_height":206},30690,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114852","CC BY 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F114852\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",1000,666,{"id":208,"source_url":209,"license_code":210,"credit_html":211,"title":212,"description":213,"author":214,"original_width":215,"original_height":216},22110,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111624","CC BY-SA 3.0","Leon Hupperichs, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111624\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Sepiolite-477765.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FSepiolite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Sepiolite\">Sepiolite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Quincy-sur-Cher, Bourges, Cher, Centre, France\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Light pink to white massive Sepiolite. Field of view 7 mm. Specimen and photo Leon Hupperichs.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Leon Hupperichs",824,734,{"id":218,"source_url":219,"license_code":220,"credit_html":221,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":222,"original_height":205},30691,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F212558","CC BY-SA 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-sa\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F212558\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Tartu, Natural History Museum\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",983,{"id":224,"source_url":225,"license_code":210,"credit_html":226,"title":227,"description":213,"author":214,"original_width":228,"original_height":229},22111,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111645","Leon Hupperichs, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111645\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Sepiolite-477763.jpg",844,708,{"id":231,"source_url":232,"license_code":203,"credit_html":233,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":205,"original_height":206},30692,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F116700","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F116700\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",{"id":235,"source_url":236,"license_code":237,"credit_html":238,"title":239,"description":240,"author":241,"original_width":242,"original_height":243},22112,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111738","Public domain","John Krygier, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111738\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Sepiolite-469730.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FSepiolite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Sepiolite\">Sepiolite\u003C\u002Fa> (Dimensions: 3\" x 2.5\" x 2.5\")\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Eskişehir Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Old specimen (with five [!] old labels) of Meerschaum (\"sea foam\"), in essence Sepiolite from Turkey used for carving smoking pipes and other gee-gaws. Forms as nodules in red clay, then cleaned and dried and carved. Turkey banned export of the nodules in the 1970s to encourage the growth of home-grown meerschaum pipe carving, but only managed to kill off the European meerschaum pipe carving industry. More of this fascinating story on Wikipedia.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Details on the five labels for this specimen: old, hand-written [unintelligible owner name], J. Kenneth Fisher [Upper Darby, PA], John S. Albanese [Union, NJ], J. Cilen, and a modern label.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","John Krygier",1024,768,{"id":245,"source_url":246,"license_code":210,"credit_html":247,"title":248,"description":249,"author":250,"original_width":251,"original_height":252},22113,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111799","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=26111799\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Sepiolite-527448.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FSepiolite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Sepiolite\">Sepiolite\u003C\u002Fa> (Size: 5.7 x 4.4 x 2.7 cm)\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Killik, Mihaliççik, Eskişehir Province, Central Anatolia Region, Turkey\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>An old specimen of Meerschaum (\"sea foam\"), in essence sepiolite, from Turkey used for carving smoking pipes and other gee-gaws. It forms as nodules in red clay, then cleaned and dried and carved. Sepiolite is an uncommon hydrated Mg-silicate. Turkey banned export of the nodules in the 1970s to encourage the growth of home-grown meerschaum pipe carving, but only managed to kill off the European meerschaum pipe carving industry. Turkish specimens of this size are rare today from this ancient locality. Ex. Dennis Mullane Collection and accompanied by a The Bradleys label dating to the 1950s or 1960s. Light for its size at 29 grams.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Robert M. 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