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Oil Sands in Alberta

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Alberta contains oil sands (tar sands) = sand deposits with 1 - 20% bitumen, a thick form of petroleum rich in carbon, poor in hydrogen
Degraded and chemically altered crude oil deposits
Removed by strip mining
Requires special extraction and refining processes to become useful
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