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torbanite
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... Oxford English Dictionary
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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. wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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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... Oxford English Dictionary
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Tasmanite
See also Cannel coal Kukersite Lamosite Marinite Torbanite Oil shale geology List of shale oil operations in Australia (Tasmania) References Oil shale wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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Lamosite
See also Cannel coal Kukersite Marinite Tasmanite Torbanite Oil shale geology References Oil shale geology wikipedia.org
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Marinite
See also Cannel coal Kukersite Lamosite Tasmanite Torbanite Oil shale geology Oil shale in Jordan References Oil shale geology wikipedia.org
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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. wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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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. wikipedia.org
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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 References Bibliography Coal Oil shale geology wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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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 wikipedia.org
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