Abstract: The development and utilization of oil shale in Fushun has lasted for more than 70 years. Fushun possesses a dominant position during the development of national oil shale industry. The authors briefly discuss the geological formation conditions of Fushun oil shale based on a lot of oil shale basic parameters. All the oil shale samples were measured by volumeweight measurement, industrial analysis, lowtemperature resorting, calorific capacity measurement, ash fusing point measurement, ash composition analysis and element analysis. The test results show that volumeweight is 1.4～2.7 t/m³, oil yield is 1.17％～20.70% and calorific capacity is 0.45～11.18 MJ/kg. The color of most of oil shale ranges from light brown to deep brown. The deeper the color of oil shale is, the higher the oil yield is. During low temperature resorting, there is the highest tar/shale ratio at 510℃. The organic substance of oil shale mainly consists of C, H, O, N. The inorganic material mainly contains Si, Al, Fe, Ca, Mg. The associated elements mainly include Ti, Zr, Ge, Ga. The ash of oil shale is mainly made up of SiO₂, Al₂O₃, Fe₂O₃, CaO, MgO and SO₃. Among them, the content of SiO₂ is the highest, then Al₂O₃ and Fe₂O₃.

Key words: oil shale, physical property of oil shale, industrial analysis, comprehensive utilization