CANADA’S TAR SANDS.
GREAT POTENTIAL INDUSTRY. TESTING FOR OIL. (Empire Press Association). EDMONTON (Alberta), November 14. Exhaustive tests are being made of Alberta tar sands which, if successful, will mean—in the cautious language of an economic survey issued by the Albera Government—“the complete independence of the British Empire for oil.” There are huge deposits of tar sands at ForL McM'urray, nearly 300 miles | north of Edmonton, and the present j experiments are based on a new process for separating the hydrocarbons lin the bituminous material. Various j steps of the process have been tested | before, but this is the first time they j have been attempted in unison, j For practical ■ purposes the McMurj ray tar sands are almost inexhaustible, j Their oil content has long been j known, and, there has been much j research into the matter of its isoi iation by processes •commercially j feasible. if the problem now is on I the verge of solution, the importance ! to Alberta of this great potential industry hardly can be over-estimated.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19452, 17 December 1934, Page 11
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172CANADA’S TAR SANDS. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19452, 17 December 1934, Page 11
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