Athabaska Sands Hold Huge Oil Supply (Canada may some day be the | world's greatest producer of off | Extent of the sands is not|where it is and apply heat tojsands sit, and some that it | known. Some 1,500 square miles ind the ol! may be mined in- Cause separation. This system, | originates in the later cretac- tead of taken out of wells. This |18 in sight, and estimates run! under which electric heaters are| eous formations of which the wy: os & series, describes | up to 30,000 square miles. They) placed in drill holes. has been| sands form part. northers Meare ae as Gane | have been encountered at 2,000-| used in Swedish shales. Devonian limestone is the for ap method of getting | foot depth as far away as Les-| The sands can be plainly seen| chief source of oil discoveries in out t riches.—-Editor) | ser Slave Lake, 200 miles north- along the Athabasea River| the Edmonton area. There it By FORBES RHUDE | east of the main deposits. banks. They are about 200 fect is at a depth of about a half- A good sample has between 12 and 17 per cent of oil Northern Alberta has as much) weight and 30 per cent by vol- Canadian Press Business Editor deep and away from the river mile in the Redwater field and DY are covered by an overburden a mile in the Leduc field. - of earth and boulders from a In the sands area, however, known oil as all the rest of the | ume—but samples are not Of | few foot to 200 feet deep the Devonian is almost at the world put. together uniferm richness ; and abov: ? , Orig j 4 pe ’ This ofl doesn’t have to be The body of immediate in- lain <0 the 0 i See Een. penmaee ~_— —— Some say is escaped from Dev- onion limestone upon which the water-line of River. looked for. It is in sight for any- i Nera ga one to see, or would be with! little digging. It has been known Since the fur traders first fol- terest runs for 75 miles along the Athabasca River and its tributaries, as it flows north) from Fort McMurray and near-| welder works on the 40-foot lengths pipelitu )ASTERN MARKET—A from Edinonion 0 f the Great Lakes. Here, tankers will carry ke The line is owned by Interprovincia! Pipe (CP PHOTO) Changes Home Life, harges Survey Report Superior lowed the Indian canoe routes.} It is the oil in the Athabasca ands. It is heavy and dark, but it is cil and can be refined into as much gasoline, say, the lighter crudes ordinarily used.j The sands are the only such! large body knowrt, and are not to be confused with oil shales whieh off t« chemically part of other matter In northern Alberta the oil is mixed with sand, but it is not part of the sand. Taking it out is not so much a matter of ex- traction as of separation. It can be washed out as in is left long enough exposed on the grownd, ordinary surface water action will separate the oil iw. Karl A. Clark, with whom If the the sand; by Waterways, northern termin- al of the Northern Alberta Rail-! way Oli and sand as ordinarily found form a fairly solid mass but when they are pried loose they can be broken up in one's hands and become just black oily sand, After separation, the ound is imnt-colored and iwoks like a good material for a bath- ing beach, A number of oll companies have taken out exploration leases, including Socony-Vacuum and Sun Oil, two United State concerns. In addition, Swedish interests experienced in ex- tracting oil from Swedish shal are conducting experiments Twe broad approaches to the separation preblem are APORATED * _MILK AMIN D inCREASED nomocet —— | 1 Visited the sands recently, 7 r VA (CP Televisi influe | said being considered. One method, vy (LU. jc L@eVISION. Intluences more “They have been a taunt to {°T the rich sands, is to mine children, the Canadian Film Institute re-| Nerthn America fer generations. — “7 = methods : : a os They wear a smirk which a treat them in a separa- “ - st ce sted od EVIE se t ; tudy just completed f television’s effect seems to say: ‘When ate you | “” plant. 0) . community, Y! going to de something” ” The other is to leave the sand formerly the . - ee Something has been done ; 5 i soctety of Can Federal and Alberta govern- i nization promet and cultural television sur during a period | in a south munity of about This town had More Canadian babies are f nt 4 . ’ ments and private interests havi brands combined. 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Blair of Toronto to see if i ut % health that babies and children erefore does not| Country Who coniributed toward tn adequate supply ef vitamin'D. ( get hanges in view} sift Of kitchen electrica) equip- , the i ould be produced and 480 units of vitamin Din inne we provides Cunadian tele- | ment for her country borme in: m: : ‘ ~ economic rw pet. 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