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    Albertite is a variety of asphalt found in the Albert Formation in Albert County, New Brunswick, and in a deposit at Dingwall, in the north-east of Scotland...
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  • 1881, yielding an estimated 200,000 tons of Albertite. Mining disputes, including the nature of Albertite, were subject to legal action in the 1850s....
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    governments in 1967, its best-known use is as a census division. The mineral albertite was discovered a few miles away in 1849, giving rise to Albert Mines....
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  • Creek and McCully fields. In addition, the solid asphalt-like hydrocarbon albertite was mined from the Albert Formation at Albert Mines between 1854 and 1884...
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  • knowledge of New Brunswick's geology a naturally occurring asphaltum called albertite. He was blocked from using it by the New Brunswick coal conglomerate because...
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    bituminous substance on the Petitcodiac River in Albert County, which he named albertite to differentiate it from coal or asphalt. While in St. John, Gesner amassed...
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  • good-quality lamp oil from a rock called “albertite,” found in New Brunswick, Canada. It was a matter if dispute whether albertite was coal or hardened petroleum...
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    between asphalt/albertite and epi-impsonite. Although the archaic definition of pyrobitumen includes low-maturity solid bitumens such as albertite, a definition...
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    local conglomerates are more coarse and sandy, and are less fertile. Albertite, a type of asphalt, was first found in Albert County in 1849 by the Canadian...
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  • Foulis invented an apparatus to produce coal gas from the distillation of albertite; his intention as that the gas could be used instead of whale oil when...
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  • associated with shale or petroleum source rock complexes.: 44  Tasmanite (albertite, kerite) is one of the regional names for tasmanian bitumen, a liquid...
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    supply so Atwood experimented with gas coals of the Ohio valley, the albertite of New Brunswick, the boghead mineral from Scotland, Trinidad pitch, and...
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