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To: DavesM who wrote (25259)7/26/2006 2:01:55 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541791
 
I couldn't find your reference to oil recovery but I did accidentally find something about minerals that suggests a term of art.

Ore deposits are mineral deposits defined as being economically recoverable. Mineral deposits may include those bodies of mineralisation which are uneconomic resources, of too low a grade or tonnage or technically impossible for extraction of the contained metal.

I understand the distinction made here between ore and minerals, the former being the subset of the latter that is economically recoverable.

So I assume that the same distinction is being made between oil and, er, oil. And since there aren't two different words for that, the "ore" equivalent is called "recoverable oil," leaving oil to mean all oil, not only the economically recoverable subset?

In common parlance, all oil in the ground is recoverable because that is a function of technology, if not now, then some time in the future.
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