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The world’s richest oil deposit
04Feb10
A 54,363-square-mile area in northern Alberta, a swath of land more than twice the size of the state of Wisconsin, sits on top of virtually the world’s largets oil reserve. In some parts, the oil sands are close enough to the surface to be recovered using conventional open-pit mining. The rest of the deposits are […]
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