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Studies on Noncatalytic Liquefaction of Western Canadian Coals 1
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B. IGNASIAK, D. CARSON, A. J. SZLADOW , and N. BERKOWITZ
Alberta Research Council, 11315—87th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2C2
Though still only very incompletely explored and subject to major revisions, Canada's coal resources are so extensive as to place this country among the most richly coal-endowed nations (1,2,3). Recent appraisals (Table I) set ultimate in-place resources in >2½ ft thick seams under less than 2500 ft of cover at some 518 billion tons; and preliminary estimates from deeper testhole logs suggest that similar, i f not even larger, tonnages may lie in coal occurrences at depths between 2500 and 4500 feet. But there are wide regional disparities with respect to distribution and coal type. Except for a relatively small (
