Language: English
Published by Canada Department of Mines , Mines Branch, Ottawa, ON, 1927
Seller: Antiquarius Booksellers, Falkland, BC, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Report No. 684. Details the potential for using raw, unrefined bituminous sand [oil ands] from Northern Albert for road surfacing and paving applications. At this time the Canadian Government was investigating practical immediate uses for the vast Athabasca oil sands. This report is an early, important landmark in tbe authors decades of study on the development of the Oil Sands which included Petroleum extraction. Contents, 31 pages, 5 photo plates with 10 photographs. Plus, numerous technical diagrams, technical drawings, and tables, in the text. GThe booklet is bright, clean and without any markings. Tight binding with a glued binding. Clean olve green wrappers with black ink titles.