2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03http://hdl.handle.net/11124/9836Date scanned: 2000-10-26.Identifier: SC1021_01.Unmounted.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Retort (?) at the Anvil Points Oil Shale Research Center, with a man in the foreground. 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.Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlColorado School of Mines Research FoundationAnvil Points Oil Shale Research CenterOil shale industryHydrocarbon processingMaterials handling and transportationOil shale processing plantsPeopleStillImage