Sands Produce Oil In Canada

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Synopsis: Oil rich sands mined in Alberta Canada are processed at nearby plant; steaming water separates the oil from the sand...(read more)

Date: 1942
Duration: 00:00:57
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Canada, Northeastern Alberta

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Sands Produce Oil In Canada

Geologists tapping the mineral rich region of Northeastern Alberta Canada develop a ten thousand square mile range of oil sands, sands so filled with oil that engineers predict a potential yield of two hundred and fifty billion barrels. Dynamiters blast barely twenty feet below the surface, like mining coal above the surface steam shovels pickup huge chunks of the rich deposit for processing at a nearby plant. Steaming hot water separates the globules of oil from each tiny particle of sand. The oil rises to the top the sand goes to the bottom. Three hundred barrels of oil from four hundred tons of sand and they just tapped the surface.