print email comment close About Tar Sands URL: http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/tarsands/index.cfm Description: Fact sheet about tar sands, or oil sands, "a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a heavy black viscous oil. Tar sands can be mined and processed to extract the oil-rich bitumen, which is then refined into oil." Discusses tar sands locations, the industry ("only Canada has a large-scale commercial tar sands industry"), extraction and processing, and related topics. Accompanied by photos. From the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Publisher: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Extra Keywords Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic EIS LII Database Information: Record 27465 created by Jennifer English on 12/10/2008 Last modification on 12/18/2008 Published: 12/18/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27465