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	Albert County Heritage
		Albertite was first discovered in Albert Mines in 1820 by Gould Hoar who discovered a deposit of the mineral under an uprooted tree.
		At first no one realized albertite's potential value as a source of fuel, because it was a new previously unknown mineral and its properties had not yet been determined.
		Most of the mined albertite was sent to Boston to be used to enrich illuminating gas.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=&ex=00000084&sl=1941&pos=1 (1076 words)

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		Natural gas, petroleum, albertite and oil shale deposits are located in southeastern New Brunswick near Hillsborough.
		Albertite, a rare solid hydrocarbon known as bitumen, occurs as veins in the oil shale (a sedimentary rock that releases oil when heated).
		Each of these four "mineral" fuels was formed during the Mississippian age (340 million years ago) when decaying plant and animal matter became buried beneath sediments.
	www.gnb.ca /0130/MineralsMatter/Fuels.htm (428 words)

	Albert County Heritage
		Photo of a gas light used in street lamps in the early 1830's, this gas light was found in a house in Boston.
		“Albertite” was used to enrich fuel for these type of lights.
		Note also seen in the photo are samples of Albertite and Oil Shale.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /pm.php?id=record_detail&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000084&rd=64013 (58 words)

	The Eclectic Lapidary - Abraham Gesner - A Father of Petroleum (Part II) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gesner contended (correctly) that the albertite was a bitumen, a solid hydrocarbon akin to asphalt.
		Charles T. Jackson, whose personality the "Dictionary of Scientific Biography" describes as irritable and peremptory to the point of downright paranoia, in the later years of his life maintained publicly and vehemently that it was he himself who had both invented the telegraph and discovered the medical use of anaesthetics.
		The albertite mine, control of which soon passed to American stockholders, continued in operation for thirty years, shipping albertite to Boston and New York as an enriching additive for coal distilled into municipal lighting gas.
	www.bovagems.com /eclectic/HTML/19970601_0697DURST.html (1341 words)

	Kerosene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kerosene can also be produced by a hydrocracker, which is used to upgrade the parts of crude oil that would otherwise only be good for fuel oil.
		Kerosene was first refined from a naturally-occurring asphaltum called Albertite by Abraham Gesner in 1846, founding the modern petroleum industry in the process.
		Gesner went on to establish his Kerosene Gaslight Company to market kerosene around the world in 1850.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kerosene (792 words)

	Mineral & Petroleum Resources - Hydrocarbon Basin Analysis
		All known hydrocarbon deposits are located in the Late Devonian–Carboniferous Maritimes Basin, which underlies the eastern part of the province.
		The first indication that oil occurred in the province was recorded in 1849 when a vein of solid bitumen, given the local name Albertite, was found cutting very organic-rich oil shales of the Albert Formation at Albert Mines south of Moncton.
		The Albertite was mined and shipped to eastern United States cities where it was distilled for street lamp oil.
	www.gnb.ca /0078/minerals/Hydrocarbon_Basin_Analysis-e.asp (593 words)

	Surface Petroleum Shows Onshore Nova Scotia
		For purposes of this report, a significant petroleum show includes references to such terms as: oil, natural gas, petroliferous material, methane, bitumen (also bituminous depending on usage of term), pyrobitumen, dead or live oil, hydrocarbon odours or staining, albertite, asphaltic material or tar.
		"Surface occurrences of albertite are not uncommon in the River John series (Horton group) near West Branch River John settlement, for eight localities of such are marked on a geological map of the area prepared by J. Stewart and W. Roliff (1932), map and page 38." (Bell, 1958, p.
		"Albertite (a desiccated petroleum) occurs in minute quantities along jointing planes within coarse sandstones of the River John group.
	www.gov.ns.ca /NATR/MEB/is/is11.htm (4720 words)

	EarthNet
		In the late 1840s, a deposit of bitumen was discovered in Albert County in southeastern New Brunswick, and named "albertite".
		It was an ideal raw material for producing kerosene, so Gesner returned to New Brunswick and staked mineral claims on a property near Hillsborough.
		At that time, there was controversy over whether albertite was a mineral or a coal.
	earthnet-geonet.ca /hall/gesner_e.php (500 words)

	Albertite
		Albertite is formed from oil shale which has become remobilised into liquid asphalt.
		Albertite Hardness: 2½ A variety of Asphaltum A variety of asphaltum (mineral Classification of Albertite
		Albertite 1 Definition: A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick.
	www.albertite.info (378 words)

	Day Trips • Underground Lakes
		Turning right here will take you to the remnants (of which there are not many) of the celebrated albertite mine, the object of a famous geological lawsuit in 1852.
		Albertite, a shiny, fl, natural bitumen discovered by Maritime geologist Dr. Abraham Gesner, was the first raw material in the manufacture of kerosene, before the advent of oil wells in 1859.
		Hence it occupies an important place in early petroleum history.
	www.gomoncton.com /EnSite/Visit/DT_Underground.html (812 words)

	The End of Fossil Fuels
		Vein-like deposits of coal have been described, such as the Canadian type known as Albertite, suggesting the possibility that the coal was at one time liquid.
		This is a further nail in the coffin for the increasingly tenuous conjecture that the coal beds are merely ancient swamps and peat bogs.
		In the case of Albertite, a vein coal from New Brunswick, Canada, liquid petroleum is found in cavities, as well as in cavities of related shales.
	www.borderlands.com /archives/arch/endfos.html (4475 words)

	The Village of Hillsborough
		The village is also famous for the discovery of "Albertite" by Abraham Gesner.
		Albertite was a coal-like substance used to light the lamps in the streets of Boston during the 1800’s.
		Much mining of this mineral was done until the supply was exhausted.
	www.deborahcarr.ca /fundycoast/hillsborough.htm (639 words)

	The Railways of Canada Archives -- Salem & Hillsborough Railroad And Other Railways of Albert County
		This mineral became known as Albertite, (technically called in 1877, congealed inspissated petroleum) and was a great source of "coal oil." It was promoted as a great illuminating oil.
		As hundreds of tons of this mineral was exported by ship, a railway was built from the Albert Mines to a coal wharf on the Petitcodiac River.
		This Albertite mining operation wound up a few years after the arrival of the Albert Railway.
	www.trainweb.org /canadianrailways/articles/SalemAndHillsboroughRR.html (2308 words)

	MINERAL DEPOSITS - LoveToKnow Article on MINERAL DEPOSITS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nevertheless the last two, at least, must usually owe to the fault-fissure the waterway which has brought in the solutions.
		A very peculiar non-metallic deposit found in fault-fissures and imitating the ordinary veins in all essentials is furnished by the asphaltic minerals, often described as asphaltic coals and known in mineralogy as grahamite, albertite, uintaite, gilsonite, andc.
		Petroleums with asphaltic bases have percolated into fault-fissures and have there deposited on evaporation and oxidation their dissolved burdens.
	www.1911ency.org /M/MI/MINERAL_DEPOSITS.htm (6635 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Foulis claimed that he had used albertite long before Gesner came to the province in 1839.
		In 1853 he converted the Partridge Island lighthouse to gas (again based on the use of albertite) and supervised the construction of his island gas retort.
		While working at the gas plant, he conceived the idea of using a steam whistle as a fog alarm.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/98-101.htm (1408 words)

	TSOP: Selected References: Solid Hydrocarbons
		Blake, W.P., 1890, Uintaite, albertite, grahamite, and asphaltum described and compared, with observations on bitumen and its compounds: Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, v.
		Khavari-Khorasani, G., 1983, Structure of albertite from New Brunswick, Canada: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v.
		King, L.H., 1963, Origin of Albert mines oil shale (New Brunswick), and its associated albertite: Canada Department of Mines, Branch Report F 115, 26 p.
	www.tsop.org /refs/solhyd.htm (3876 words)

	WELCOME TO NEWBRUNSWICK
		Many names of places in New Brunswick reflect their mining history such as Quarryville, Plaster Rock, Lower Salt Springs and Grindstone Island.
		Graphite, nickel, copper, iron, manganese, salt, gypsum, building stone, oil shale, natural gas, oil and albertite were just some of the many products mined in New Brunswick during the last half of the 19th century.
		New Brunswick's mineral industry did not gain international status until the early 1950's.
	www.angelfire.com /geek/newbruns/mine.html (519 words)

	Jet - Gemstone Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Vulcanite, hardened rubber, has been used to imitate jet.
		Glass, obsidian, stained chalcedony, bakelite, celluloid, perspex, casein, polystyrene, and albertite have all been used to simulate jet.
		Jet was used by the Romans, who exported it from Whitby, and it was also very popular with the Victorians.
	www.24carat.co.uk /jet.html (336 words)

	Aktashite
		Search was "Aktashite " Search returned 1 results.
		Agate Aguilarite Akerite Akermanite Aktashite Albandite Albertite Albite Algodonite Allanite...
		Agate Aguilarite Akerite Akermanite Aktashite Albandite Albertite Albite Algodonite...
	www.toprocks.net /MineralList/2/Aktashite.asp (234 words)

	Algodonite
		Aktashite Albandite Albertite Albite Algodonite Allanite Allemontite Almandine Altaite Alunite...
		Aktashite Albandite Albertite Albite Algodonite Allanite Allemontite Almandine Altaite...
		If you require any of these mineral species for your collection or current research, you may use this list as an order form.
	www.toprocks.net /MineralList/2/Algodonite.asp (324 words)

	Local Moncton Web-David Jonah-Greater Moncton New Brunswick's News Guide-to Moncton News, Politics and Business Listings
		They are covering this slowly developing potential for natural gas production in New Brunswick as the current news release illustrates.
		In a day, when the American oil industry in Montana refer to Alberta (after which the Province was named from Albertite coal in Albert Mines, Albert County), as the 800 lb gorilla in the room to our north; this small update on Corrifor Resources and the exploration at Hiram Brook.
		We're not in the big time yet, but every little step brings us closer.
	localmonctonweb.com /archives/2005_10_01_archive.asp (476 words)

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		AB-EAC-001 ALB101 EAC TE Albertite 0 45 Powder "Alberta, Canada " 0 AB-EAC-001-E ALB101E EAC TE Experimental Organic Toluene-Insoluble Albertite 0 0 Bulk "Albert Mine, New Brunswick, Canada" Athabasca Univ. 0 From Minerals Unlimited.
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		Bulk sample, minimal processing." HM-JFM-016 Chrome Ore JFM TE Mineral Metal Chrome Ore 0 1000 Bulk Powder "Ruckert Terminal, Baltimore, MD " "SITAC, VA " 0 "Sample from rock & soil piles at Ruckert Terminal.
	www.planetary.brown.edu /relab/rel_pub/aux/Sample_Catalogue.txt (5321 words)

	Silver Investor
		He was special ambassador to France in 1897, sent by the S.A.R.---Sons of the American Revolution (France assisted the Colonies in becoming free from the British).
		Calling himself a “financier” (perhaps the Erlangers put him in business) in the 1897-1942 volume, he was president of the Baltimore Coal Mining and Railroad Company and “Albertite Oilite and Cannel Coal Co. Ltd.”
		Henry Clark Corbin (1842-1909, Pilgrims 1903) was a Northern Civil War combatant as a brigadier General of volunteers.
	www.silver-investor.com /charlessavoie/cs_may05_pilgrims.htm (14946 words)

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