Four basic steps are involved in the aboveground processing of oil shale mining the ore either through underground or surface mining crushing the ore to a size that can be handled by the retort retorting heating the crushed shale to pyrolysis temperatures and upgrading the oil obtained by pyrolysis of the organic content of the shale Surface retorts may be classified by whether the
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Get PriceGo to the north western mushroom forest find the trenchs i think there are 2 but there is at least one use a light to help you tell the shale from the rock because they don t stand out a ton in that trench you should find half a dozen ish shale deposits which should get your enough a diamond or 2 which will be enough for you to push forward to depth modules so you can go to the real shale
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