Oil from sand a booming commodity

FORT McMURRAY, ALBERTA -- A mud-caked dump truck taller than a two-story house rumbled into a vast mining pit and stopped next to an excavator so large that it could deposit a load in the seats above Fenway Park's Green Monster. Four shuddering drops from the excavator's shovel filled the truck's bed with 400 tons of tarry sands before it ... (Full article: 1065 words)

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