Earth's physical resources: extracting coal and oil - for iPod/iPhone

Extracting coal and oil

An introduction to this album.

Coal formation

Designing a system of mining to suit the split seams in the Northumberland coal field. Analysing the small detail reveals how it was formed.

Open cast mines

A fault is an underground hazard. By drilling a series boreholes, miners start the safe development of an open cast mine.

Oil in sand and shale

How to get crude oil from the Athabasca oil sands and from Colorado oil shale - among the world's largest deposits of oil.

Hidden oil reserves

Describing what the Athabasca oil sands look like and the unique conditions that led to their formation.