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Such basins are common across the Balkans, with many containing borates and oil shales, but only Jadar has jadarite.
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New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
Mizuho Securities thinks there’s only 25 more years of oil shale wells left to drill anyway.
—Bryce Erickson, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
In his case, the early 1970s boom in the oil shale industry on the Western Slope attracted him.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
According to the International Energy Agency, in 2020, countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development relied on coal, peat, and oil shale for 36 percent of their total energy supply, while renewables supplied only 16 percent.
—Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
Mizuho Securities thinks there’s only 25 more years of oil shale wells left to drill anyway.
—Bryce Erickson, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
In his case, the early 1970s boom in the oil shale industry on the Western Slope attracted him.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
According to the International Energy Agency, in 2020, countries outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development relied on coal, peat, and oil shale for 36 percent of their total energy supply, while renewables supplied only 16 percent.
—Kelly Sims Gallagher, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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“Oil shale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20shale. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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