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Gerald Butts

@gmbutts

As if @cabotcapebreton Cliffs No 16 weren’t ridiculously beautiful enough, this guy was perched on the side of the green this morning. 🦅 #CapeBreton

This place is pure magic.

To amend the cliché, the best revenge is living well on Cape Breton Island.

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked about sinkholes and whether they are a risk when walking in the woods.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton @oxfordsinkhole

The short answer is yes, sinkholes are real but no, they are not a major risk and should not prevent you from enjoying outdoor activities.
Most natural sinkholes are caused by groundwater naturally eroding rocks like gypsum, salt and limestone which are water-soluble.
#nspoli

The water erodes the rock, leaving an underground cavern. Eventually, the weight of the rock and earth above the cavern causes the sinkhole to form. Sinkholes can form either gradually (i.e. a small depression appears and perhaps grows larger over time) or by sudden collapse.

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked about the historic #NewCampbellton coal mine in #VictoriaCounty.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #nshistory
@JaimeBattiste

The New Campbellton coal mine was opened in 1862 by Charles J. Campbell, a former Member of Parliament, Member of the Legislative Assembly and executive council member. The community had been named Kelly’s Cove but was changed to New Campbellton in 1862 in honour of Mr. Campbell.

A sample of New Campbellton’s coal was sent to the 1865 Dublin Exhibition and “was very favorably noticed by the Judges,” according to a report.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #nshistory

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

The Sullivan Creek #coal mine, before and after!
It's one of several mines reclaimed around #AlderPoint #CapeBreton in the late 1900s/early 2000s - examples of how mining makes temporary use of land and then land can be used other ways.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @JaimeBattiste

The first mine in the area was the Scotia Mine, or #NovaScotia Steel & Coal Company No. 4 Colliery, on Toronto Road, which operated on the Sydney Main (Harbour) Seam from 1915 to 1921.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @JaimeBattiste

Coal quality and structural issues (including water inflow) plague the Harbour Seam west of Florence so upon closure of the colliery, production on the Harbour Seam was limited to the Company’s No. 3 Colliery in Florence, which had opened in 1902...
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked about the historical #Londonderry #iron mines. Here's the story...

#nspoli #novascotia #cbpoli @ZannLenore @MunColchester #colchester #nshistory

Iron mining and smelting began in #NovaScotia in 1825 when iron mines opened at Nictaux Falls, #AnnapolisCounty, and the Annapolis Iron Mining Company built a blast furnace at Clementsport between #AnnapolisRoyal and #Digby.
#nspoli #cbpoli #colchester

Iron has also been mined in numerous other locations in #NovaScotia, including East River, Bridgeville and Stellarton (#PictouCounty), Brookfield and Economy Mountain (#ColchesterCounty), Erinville and other places in #GuysboroughCounty...
#nspoli #cbpoli #colchester

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked about mining in Victoria Mines, #CapeBreton.
We are going to discuss #VictoriaMines + #NewVictoria since their mining histories are closely linked.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @KCoombesMLA @JaimeBattiste

The first land grants in #VictoriaMines were given to Irish settlers in 1794 and in New Victoria in 1808.
#Coal mining in the area began in 1865 with what we now call the Old Victoria Mine, which was likely the 1st mine in North America planned to be completely...
#nspoli #cbpoli

...under the sea floor. It was based on the shore just north of the intersection of the New Waterford Highway (#28) and Lake Road (circled in red on the map below). The #coal from this mine was conveyed by a railway 5.5 kms long to the Victoria Pier at South Bar for shipment.

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

The Point Aconi coal mine, before and after!
A surface mine operated at #PointAconi, #CapeBreton, from 2006-2013 and today the site is greenspace with ponds and ocean views.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @JaimeBattiste @CBRMGov

It’s a great example of reclamation mining – cleaning up historical mines by completing extraction and returning them to nature or preparing them for other uses.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @JaimeBattiste @CBRMGov

The mine was on the site of the old Prince Mine, which opened in 1975 and closed in 2001. It produced about 1 million tons of coal per year and sold it to #NovaScotia Power to generate electricity at the #PointAconi power plant, immediately next to the mine.
#nspoli #cbpoli

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Today’s mining/quarrying industry is a sophisticated, science-based business that provides essential materials we all use every day – and a very different industry than in the past.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton @TimHoustonNS @ChenderMLA @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster

Mining/quarrying is #NovaScotia’s highest-paying resource industry. Its average total compensation (wages+benefits) is $87,000 per year. An entry-level job like haul truck driver pays an average $25/hour.
#nspoli #cbpoli @TimHoustonNS @ChenderMLA @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster

97% of jobs at #NovaScotia mines and quarries are filled by Nova Scotians. The industry is committed to hiring locally.
#nspoli #cbpoli @TimHoustonNS @ChenderMLA @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked about Nova Scotia’s version of the San Andreas Fault - the Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault System!
Nova Scotia has two halves geologically...
#nspoli #cbpoli #NovaScotia #CapeBreton

#NovaScotia has 2 halves geologically: The northern half came from Europe and the southern half from Africa. The Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault System is where they collided 400 million years ago. This caused earthquakes, melted rocks+concentration of minerals like #gold+zinc.
#nspoli

People sometimes think of it as a single fault that cuts the province in half. In fact, it's a fault zone or system, not a single fault. There are several large parallel, or nearly parallel, faults that collectively make up the system.
#nspoli #cbpoli #NovaScotia #CapeBreton

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

#SydneyMines played a key role in #NovaScotia’s coal mining and industrial history.
Here's the story...
#nspoli #cbpoli #CapeBreton #nshistory @HomeMattersCB @JaimeBattiste @CBRMGov @AllanMacMaster @KCoombesMLA #coal

#SydneyMines was named after Thomas Townshend (1733-1800), First Viscount Sydney, who was British Home Secretary in the Pitt Government in the 1780s. He was an important player in negotiating the Canada-US border.
#nspoli #cbpoli #CapeBreton #novascotia #nshistory

He felt the British needed to keep Canada so loyalists – Americans who supported the British side in the US War of Independence - would have a safe haven to go to after the war.
#nspoli #cbpoli #CapeBreton #novascotia #nshistory

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Happy Vulcanalia!
Yesterday was the ancient festival to celebrate Vulcan, the Roman god of fire who was renowned for his metalworking skills.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #novascotia

As a son of Jupiter, Vulcan was the creator of his father's lightning bolts. He also made armor, weapons and jewelry for the gods and heroes of Rome.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #novascotia

Volcanoes are named after him. It’s said that every time his wife, Venus, was unfaithful – which was apparently quite a lot – he got angry and hammered red-hot metal at his forge with such ferocity that it created volcanic eruptions.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Misconceptions about modern #gold mining stem from historical mining practices that we agree were not good enough. No industry took proper care of the environment 100-150 years ago. However, historical sites like these have nothing to do with modern mining.
#nspoli #cbpoli

Modern mining is a sophisticated, science-based activity that takes proper care of the environment. Nova Scotia mines are stringently regulated by the provincial and federal governments.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton

Some people have questions about how we manage the environment, so below is information on some of the questions commonly raised.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

The #Walton #barite mine, before and after!
One of the biggest barite deposits in the world is in #HantsCounty. It was mined from 1941-78. Today it's a lovely lake and greenspace.

#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #nshistory @MLAChuckPorter

A small, 1 metre-square outcrop of barite was discovered in 1894 but its location was lost to time until 1940 when prospector Roscoe Hiltz rediscovered it. Subsequent exploration confirmed the existence of a major deposit at the site and a surface mine started the following year.

In 1955 exploration drilling underneath the barite deposit discovered several metals: lead, zinc, copper and silver. Underground mining started in 1961 and made the site a significant producer of these metals along with its lucrative barite production.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Mining built #NovaScotia!
Sandstone was quarried from a local beach to build Judique’s St. Andrews Church (#InvernessCounty).

#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton @AllanMacMaster @mikekelloway @BAMacQuarrie

Two previous churches, both wooden, burned down due to lightning strikes. Residents decided after the second time, in 1918, that the next church would be made of stone to prevent fires.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #novascotia @AllanMacMaster @mikekelloway @BAMacQuarrie

In 1924, sandstone was extracted from an outcrop on the shore at McKays Point for the building. It was the only stone ever quarried from that site. Residents hauled the stone over frozen ground on sleds to the church.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton @AllanMacMaster @mikekelloway

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Environmental science wasn't very sophisticated till the 1990s. That's when #NovaScotia started doing enviro assessments and better-regulating industrial projects. Prior to that, there wasn't much understanding of enviro impacts.
#nspoli @GordonWilsonLNS @TimHoustonNS @ChenderMLA

Mining and its regulation are totally different today. A mine's environmental assessment often takes 3-5 years and costs over a million dollars. It generates dozens of scientific studies.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton @GordonWilsonLNS @TimHoustonNS @ChenderMLA

Governments often ask for even more studies and data. This is proof of how stringently mining is regulated to protect the enviro.
Below are pics of the reclaimed Evans, Coalburn + Drummond mines.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #NovaScotia @GordonWilsonLNS @TimHoustonNS @ChenderMLA

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We all love #PeggysCove for how beautiful it is but how it formed also offers a great geology lesson about the three types of rock:
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton @TourismNS @BernJordanMP @Pier12Hugh @MattWhitman2020

IGNEOUS ROCK: Rocks formed by molten magma are called igneous rocks and can be fine-grained or coarse-grained depending on how closely to the earth’s surface the cooling occurred.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton @TourismNS

Granite is an example of a coarse-grained igneous rock which cooled relatively slowly beneath the earth’s surface. Granite is often exposed at the surface as overlying rocks are eroded.
SEDIMENTARY ROCK: Sedimentary rocks can be formed by 2 processes.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology!
We were asked about these unusual-looking rocks at Roy Island, just west of #MelmerbyBeach in #Pictou County.

#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton
@TimHoustonNS @karla_macf_pc @SeanFraserMP

Coincidentally, Ron van Dommellen, who has a great web site about #NovaScotia minerals (nsminerals.atspace.com), visited the same site recently and reports that the rocks at Roy Island have many plant fossils in them, including sections of branches and trunks.
#nspoli #cbpoli

The darker rocks in the centre are a plant fossil that has become a mixture of stone and coal.
The Geological Survey of Canada suggests the yellow material in the picture is likely jarosite, a mineral that contains iron, sulfate and potassium.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Gold was discovered in Voglers Cove, #Lunenburg County, in 1885 when John Mann found gold in a boulder. Augustus Reinhardt also found #gold there the following year.
Four small mines eventually operated along...
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton
@MarkFurey1 @BernJordanMP

...Voglers Brook in the late 1890s to early 1900s in the Voglers Cove #Gold District. Records of their production are incomplete but based on what is known, output was modest.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton
@MarkFurey1 @BernJordanMP

44 ounces of #gold are known to have been produced from two shafts at the Voglers Cove Mine which had a 5-stamp mill for separating the gold from its host rock. There is an aggregate quarry at the site now.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton
@MarkFurey1 @BernJordanMP

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Mining built #NovaScotia!
Government House – the residence and workplace of Nova Scotia’s Lieutenant Governor – features stone quarried from across #NS.
Here's the story of that beautiful building!

#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #Halifax @LtGovNS
@CPMcCreery @HistoricNS @TourismNS

When he arrived in #Halifax in 1792, Sir John Wentworth (1737-1820) objected to the dank, less-than-luxurious Governor’s residence. In letters he wrote back to England, he described it as being of “green wood and rotten timbers” and “in danger of falling into the cellar.”
#nspoli

So he set about arranging to build a proper country manor for the lieutenant governor’s residence. The site he chose, just off what is now the corner of Spring Garden Road and Barrington St. in #Halifax, had actually been purchased by the government to be...
#nspoli #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

Gold has many uses, including in all electronics and in medicine (i.e. treating cancer, pacemakers, surgical equipment...).
But how did #NovaScotia's #gold deposits form?
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton @ChenderMLA @AllanMacMaster @HomeMattersCB @TimHoustonNS @LarryHarrisonPC

All #gold on Earth formed billions of years ago in stars that over-heated and blew up. Gold formed in the heat of the explosions and then floated around space. As rock, dust and other materials came together to form Earth, gold was distributed around the planet.
#nspoli #cbpoli

400 million years ago North Africa and North America started colliding. Sub-sea sediments were squished between the tectonic plates, upthrusted and folded as they turned into rock.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton #novascotia

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Mining Association of Nova Scotia

@MiningNS

We love getting questions about mining, minerals and geology! We were asked why volcanoes often form along tectonic plate boundaries:
The Earth’s surface is made up of a dozen large tectonic plates and a number of smaller ones.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton

These plates move imperceptibly - a few centimetres per year - and over the course of millions of years continents and oceans move and change shape. The plates pulling apart cause fractures or deep rifts in the Earth’s crust, both on land and under the sea...
#nspoli #cbpoli

...and plates colliding with each other form mountain ranges and new islands as the rock is forced upwards. It’s this powerful tectonic activity that results in so many volcanoes at plate boundaries.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton

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