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Nearly two-thirds of Canada's daily bitumen production is dug from open-pit mines in a 37-township area north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The existing mines have capacity of some 650,000 barrels of crude bitumen per day, and to date 2.9 billion barrels have been produced.
As impressive as these numbers might be, they are just the beginning: an additional 32 billion barrels of established mineable reserves remain. If all of the proposed projects are brought onstream, total production could skyrocket to more than 2 million barrels a day. More conservatively, Alberta's Energy & Utilities Board has forecast that total mined bitumen production will reach 1.4 million barrels...
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