Show Oil from tar far sands could start by summer Actual mining and processing of tar sands could begin this summer in Utah a Brigham Young University professor of chemical engineering said in a report Joseph M M. Glassett has been conducting a study for or the Eyring Research Institute on the feasibility of surface mining Utah tar sands The institute a a. a private research firm is sponsoring the study under contract with the U. U S S. S Bureau of Mines HE liE SAID the Major Oil Division of Arizona Fuels Corporation plans to begin surface mining and oil extraction operations this summer Production is expected to reach approximately 1000 barrels a day The company has leased a acre 90 site on Asphalt Ridge near Vernal An oil refinery opera operated led by bythe bythe bythe the firm near Roosevelt originally was built for the processing of tar sands Thus far it has processed only crude oil from Uintah Basin wells wens Glassett said that of 51 tar sand deposits in the state state- six contain more than one billion barrels of oil |