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Torbanite, also
known historically as
boghead coal or
kerosene shale, is a
variety of fine-grained
black oil shale. It
usually occurs as
lenticular m****es...
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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 "stars of fire"...
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vitrinite and inertinite.
Lacustrine shales consist of
lamosite and
torbanite.
Lamosite is a pale-brown and grayish-brown to dark-gray to
black oil...
- Scotland,
patented a
method for the
extraction of
paraffin (kerosene) from
torbanite, a very pure
cannel coal. It was
widely used from 1850 to 1860 in the...
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commercial oil-works in the world,
using oil
extracted from
locally mined torbanite, lamosite, and
bituminous coal to
manufacture naphtha and lubricating...
- the dry
distillation of coal,
especially the
resinous "boghead coal" (
torbanite). He
extracted a
number of
useful liquids from it, one of
which he named...
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Mining is
important to the
district with anthracite, coal and
torbanite mined.: 303
Ermelo falls under the M****ligwa
Local Muni****lity which...
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deposit Tasmanite –
Sedimentary rock – a
marine oil
shale found in
Tasmania Torbanite – Type of fine-grained
black oil
shale – a
lacustrine oil
shale found...
- the
North Sea
dates back to 1851, when
James Young retorted oil from
torbanite (boghead coal, or oil shale)
mined in the
Midland Valley of Scotland....
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refinery in the
world at Bathgate,
using oil
extracted from
locally mined torbanite, shale, and
bituminous coal to
manufacture naphtha and
lubricating oils;...
