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CSM Rifle Oil Shale Plant

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Colorado Digitization Project
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Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive
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1963
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Colorado School of Mines Research Foundation
 Anvil Points Oil Shale Research Center
 Oil shale industry
 Oil shale processing plants
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The image shows a man sitting on an embankment on the side of a road, with buildings and embankments in the background. The Anvil Points Oil Shale Research Center plant, near Rifle, Colorado, was built by the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1947 and operated as an experimental and demonstration facility until 1956. The Department of the Interior leased the plant to the Colorado School of Mines Research Foundation in 1964. The CSM Research Foundation contracted with several oil companies to direct a research program there on the economic extraction of oil from shale.
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