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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2012
Applicants:
Willem P. C. Duyvesteyn, Reno, NV (US);
Julian Kift, Reno, NV (US);
Inventors:
Willem P. C. Duyvesteyn, Reno, NV (US);
Julian Kift, Reno, NV (US);
Assignee:
Marathon Oil Canada Corporation, Calgary, Alberta, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 21/02 (2006.01); C10G 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods for preparing solvent-dry, stackable tailings. The methods may include a primary leaching or extraction process that separates most of the bitumen from a material comprising bitumen and produces first solvent-wet tailings. The first solvent-wet tailings are washed with a second solvent that removes the first solvent from the tailings. Second solvent remaining in the tailings is removed to thereby produce solvent-dry, stackable tailings.