Alberta Oil Sands Mines
aerial view, wisps of steam rise from a tailings pond in the early morning at the Suncor Energy tar sands processing plant about 20 miles north of Fort McMurray. Tailings are the waste materials left over after extracting pure bitumen from sand and clay with which it is found in deposits. The ponds...
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ftmitdome:oai:dome.mit.edu:1721.3/165350 2024-09-15T18:06:55+00:00 Alberta Oil Sands Mines Alberta Tar Sands Mines Canadian Canadian Site: Alberta (Canada) other date: start of production, 1967 1967 image/jpeg http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/165350 unknown 144262 249218 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/165350 140407-0334 © Alex S. MacLean / Landslides Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only Mining Oil sands -- Alberta Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.) Aerial views Pollution Suncor Energy Aerial photography -- Canada Mining corporations Image 1967 ftmitdome 2024-08-26T23:34:23Z aerial view, wisps of steam rise from a tailings pond in the early morning at the Suncor Energy tar sands processing plant about 20 miles north of Fort McMurray. Tailings are the waste materials left over after extracting pure bitumen from sand and clay with which it is found in deposits. The ponds contain a complex mixture of heavy metals and volatile organic compounds, many of which are considered toxic, 4/4/2014 Still Image Fort McMurray MIT Libraries Dome |
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aerial view, wisps of steam rise from a tailings pond in the early morning at the Suncor Energy tar sands processing plant about 20 miles north of Fort McMurray. Tailings are the waste materials left over after extracting pure bitumen from sand and clay with which it is found in deposits. The ponds contain a complex mixture of heavy metals and volatile organic compounds, many of which are considered toxic, 4/4/2014 |
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