Excerpt from Joint Report on the Bituminous, or Oil Shales of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: Also, on the Oil-Shale Industry of Scotland; Part I. Economics, Part II. Geology The following report on oil - shales is divided into two parts: (1) a monograph on the economic aspect of the subject, dealing with the practical tests made during the summer of 1908 at one of the largest, modern oil-shale works in Scotland, of nearly fifty tons of oil-shale, mined in Albert county, New Brunswick; and (2) a treatise on the distribution, geological position, and character of the oil-shales of various countries - particularly those of Scotland and of eastern Canada; in which is included a description of the mining, retorting, and distillation of oil-shales, and consequent production of crude oil; together with an account of. The economic treatment of the various by-products; and a special chapter on the chemical aspects of the mineral oil industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.