Tailings sample
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- OBJECT TYPE
- coarse sand
- DATE
- 1913
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2015.0285.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Glass, coarse sand and cork.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- 16.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- 4.0 cm
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Mining and Metallurgy
- Category
- Mineral exploration
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Alberta
- City
- Fort McMurray
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Alberta
- Period
- From c. 1913
- Canada
-
Taken from acquisition proposal; ref 1: "Samples of oil sands from Fort McMurray are important examples of the research that GSC carried out on bituminous sands in the 1920s and the 1930s. Sidney Ells was a mining engineer who began working for GSC in 1910s. He is considered a pioneer of oil sand research. In 1913 he brought samples of Athabascan oil sands to Ottawa, and ensured that bituminous sands was a research priority at GSC until 1917. In 1918, this research was moved to University of Alberta under directorship of Karl Clark." - Function
-
Bituminous sand sample. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Embossed on the bottom of bottle "654/ 65". Artifact came with a paper label (in S.I.) which reads "Department of Mines/ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY/ Sand Tailings from separation of McMurray Bituminous Sand./ McMurray,/ Alberta/ No. 9528". Upper left corner is a Canadian shield.
- Missing
- Appears complete.
- Finish
- Clear glass bottle with cork stopper. Inside bottle are coarse sand tailings. Grains are grey.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Tailings sample, circa 1913, Artifact no. 2015.0285, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2015.0285.001/
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