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View from SW.
SC 451753
Description View from SW.
Date 5/10/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 451753
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Spent shale bing, Niddrie Oil Works, West Lothian The shale oil industry developed in the 1860s as supplies of the oil-bearing mineral torbanite were exhausted, and was an important industry in West Lothian until the mid 1950s. The Niddrie works was one of the last to close. This view shows the enormous bulk of spent shale left after the oil had been removed. Shale oil was made by heating shale (a mineral related to coal) to release a liquid similar to crude petroleum. This was refined to give paraffin, paraffin wax, diesel and lubricating oils, and petrol. The shale had to be mined, increasing costs. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/246/7
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/451753
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
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