Archive for April, 2008
Alberta Tar Sands & Sudbury Basin- Lesson 22 – Part 3 of 8 •Oil shale; utah,Wyoming 450 billion barrels •Only can recover 1/6th •Fine grained sedimentary rock. •Mined underground •Underground equipment •Processing oil shale; crushing and heating •Refining of oil •Coal in western Canada — Open pit mining
Alberta Tar Sands & Sudbury Basin- Lesson 22 – Part 2 of 8 •Open pit mining •Mining the tar sands •Bucket wheel, conveyor •By products; sulphur and coke can be a problem •Tailings waste 24000 gal per min. adequate dyke construction needed •Syncrude using draglines •Richest concentration near the bottom of the beeding of the tar sands 18% •Bitumen different than the oil
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