Springer Oil Shales: A Complete Story

This book provides thorough knowledge and detailed information of oil shales using a range of conventional and unconventional techniques and methodologies combined to elucidate the composition of oil shale deposits. As these rocks are mined for energy production their composition and mineral constituents are of special interests to individuals and communities that are likely to be effected by these resources when mined and processed. The book highlights the environmental and health hazards of the spent shales after processing. These are significantly greater in volume than the rocks originally mined before processing. Toxic metals tend to double and triple their concentrations in the spent shales and will be leached into water sources and soils.Since oil shales as an energy resource are totally uneconomical; all oil shales, their mining and processing are heavily subsidised by governments and institutions using taxpayers money.     From the Back Cover This book provides thorough knowledge and detailed information of oil shales using a range of conventional and unconventional techniques and methodologies combined to elucidate the composition of oil shale deposits. As these rocks are mined for energy production their composition and mineral constituents are of special interests to individuals and communities that are likely to be effected by these resources when mined and processed. The book highlights the environmental and health hazards of the spent shales after processing. These are significantly greater in volume than the rocks originally mined before processing. Toxic metals tend to double and triple their concentrations in the spent shales and will be leached into water sources and soils.Since oil shales as an energy resource are totally uneconomical; all oil shales, their mining and processing are heavily subsidised by governments and institutions using taxpayers money. About the Author Miryam Glikson, PhD. ANU (Australian National University): Oil Shales-Petrology and Geochemistry.  Post Doc. ANU: Environmental effects of Oil Shale Mining and Processing. Research Fellow ANU: Petroleum and Mineral exploration of Australian Northern Sedimentary Basins. Results published in numerous Scientific Journals and compiled in the best- selling book ‘Organic Matter and Mineralization’ published by Springer. Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at UQ (University of Queensland) focus on Coal, developing a comprehensive course for Geology and Mining Engineering students. Course generated many Hon. MSc and PhD students. Recipient of the prestigious ARC (Australian Research Council) grant for the research of Earliest Life on Earth in 3.5 b. year-old rocks in Western Australia and South Africa. First Published in Precambrian Research in 2008 and Later Compiled into a book ‘Earliest Life on Earth’ published by Springer and downloaded over 150 000. More recently ‘Coal- Window into Past Vegetation and Climate’ published this year is showing to be a popular book. After some 20 years of teaching and Research at UQ Miryam Glikson retired and settled on a rural property in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, as Private Consultant on Fossil fuels and related problems.