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torbanite Min. (ˈtɔːbənaɪt) [f. Torbane Hill in Linlithgowshire, where found: see -ite1 2 b.] A deep brown shale, allied to cannel coal; also called Torbane Hill mineral or Boghead coal; valuable for the production of petroleum and gas, and famous as the subject of a great lawsuit hinging upon the d...
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Torbanite
Torbanite is classified as lacustrine type oil shale. Torbanite found in Bathgate may have formations of bathvillite found within it. Historically, two other names have been used for Torbanite.
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Bathvillite
It is an amorphous, opaque, and very friable material of fawn-brown color, filling cavities in the torbanite or Boghead coal of Bathville, Lothian, Scotland
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boghead
Boghead, boghead (ˈbɒghɛd) The name of an estate near Bathgate in West Lothian applied attrib. to a deep brown shale found there. See torbanite.1858, 1867 [see torbanite]. 1919 Chambers's Jrnl. June 390/2 The famous oil-shale of Torbanehill, torbanite or bog-head cannel, is often regarded as a varie...
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Tasmanite
See also
Cannel coal
Kukersite
Lamosite
Marinite
Torbanite
Oil shale geology
List of shale oil operations in Australia (Tasmania)
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Oil shale
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Kukersite
See also
Oil shale in Estonia
Oil shale geology
Cannel coal
Lamosite
Marinite
Tasmanite
Torbanite
References
Oil shale geology
Geology of Estonia
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Lamosite
See also
Cannel coal
Kukersite
Marinite
Tasmanite
Torbanite
Oil shale geology
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Oil shale geology
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Marinite
See also
Cannel coal
Kukersite
Lamosite
Tasmanite
Torbanite
Oil shale geology
Oil shale in Jordan
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Oil shale geology
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Addiewell
When the reserves of torbanite eventually gave out, the company moved on to pioneer the exploitation of West Lothian's oil shale deposits, the only workable deposits in Europe outside Russia, if not so rich in oil as torbanite.
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Stellarton
The town was incorporated as Stellarton in 1889 and owes its name to a specific type of torbanite which came to be known as "stellarite" because of the
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Anglovaal
Origins of SASOL
In the 1930s, Anglovaal, in cooperation with the Burmah Oil Company, created Satmar (South African Torbanite Mining and Refining Company
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Kerosene Vale
In the retorts, broken up torbanite was heated to dull-red heat for around eight hours, driving off the crude oil.
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Cannel coal
On October 17, 1850, James Young, of Glasgow, Scotland, patented a method for the extraction of paraffin (kerosene) from torbanite, a very pure cannel See also
Ampelite
Kukersite
Lamosite
Marinite
Oil shale geology
Tasmanite
Torbanite
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Coal
Oil shale geology
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Illawarra Coal Measures
Late Permian, it comprises shale, quartz-lithic sandstone, conglomerate rocks, and chert, with sporadically carbonaceous mudstone, coal and seams of torbanite
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Oil shale in Australia
Oil shale deposits of Queensland and New South Wales are mainly lacustrine (torbanite and lamosite) of Cenozoic deposits, varying in size from 1 to 17.4 Exploitation started in New South Wales in 1865 and continued intermittently until 1952, 16 torbanite deposits were commercially exploited in New South
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