The Melville Island oil sands are a large deposit of oil sands (sometimes referred to as tar sands) on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

[1][2] Exploration for petroleum deposits in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago began, on Melville Island, in 1961.

[3] Oil sands deposits were found in the Marie Bay region in 1962, and other locations that are part of the Bjorne Formation.

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