Black oil mountain in Xinjiang
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Black Oil Mountain is located in the region 2km northeast of Karamay City, and transportation is convenient. Its appearance is a low black oil mountain with the relative height of only 13m, and an area of about 0. 2km The whole mountain is black with uneven surface, and it is constituted by sandstones disseminated by oil or gravel rocks condensed by oil; because of the volatilization of the oil, so the large surface area is dry. There are many oil springs on the mountain, forming many small oil marshes with oil vacuoles gushing in the center, the oil is the black and sticky, and it is the precious low condensation crude or Black Oil Mountain is the outcrop of the Triassic system oil, and an asphalt hill formed by the solidification of the overflowed oil and gravels.
There was the record of”flow for dozens of li”in the history of Wei dynasty. the Western Regions. It was called the Bluestone gorge in documents of the late Oing dynasty and had the record of there is h oil In 1919. Weng tonghao recorded in the brief records of chinese minerals Bluestone Gorge, namely the Black Oil Mountain. there are many oil springs. sticky and black “Liu Jinzao recorded in the general examination of documents in Qing dynasty: “in the Black Oil Mountain, there were many oil springs, and now there are nine springs, the one on the top is the largest one, and more than two hundred Jin oil can be gotton everyday when the oil is flourishing. “In 1940, a Uygur named Sailimubayi dug caves to collect oil for exchanging daily necessities.
On October 29, 1955, the Well No. 1 near the mountain spouted out the industrial oil flow, marking the birth of Karamay Oilfield Black Oil Mountain has both a high scientific value and strong visiting value, and it is one of the representative attractions of the karamay oil culture Mulei mingsha mountain.
