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#NovaScotia’s northernmost documented mineral occurrence is on St. Paul Island, an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, north of #CapeBreton!
Check out the history of this neat island: the Graveyard of the Gulf!
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Check out the history of this neat island: the Graveyard of the Gulf!
#nspoli #cbpoli @TourismCB @TourismNS @NS_Museum @JaimeBattiste
The mineral occurrence isn’t of any significance – it’s a small outcrop of galena, sphalerite and pyrrhotite in limestone, and marcasite in small quartz veins – but it’s as far north as you can go in #NovaScotia.
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton
#nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton
What is interesting is St. Paul Island itself. It's in The Cabot Strait, at the entrance of The Gulf of St. Lawrence, about 14 miles from Cape Breton.
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#NovaScotia #nspoli #cbpoli #capebreton
This is the #Dingwall gypsum quarry, before and after!
Check out this history of this beautiful former quarry!
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #Capebreton #nshistory #nshist
@AllanMacMaster @JaimeBattiste @TourismCB @TourismNS @HistoricNS @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @ChenderMLA
Check out this history of this beautiful former quarry!
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #Capebreton #nshistory #nshist
@AllanMacMaster @JaimeBattiste @TourismCB @TourismNS @HistoricNS @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @ChenderMLA
The #CapeBreton quarry was opened in 1933 by the Atlantic Gypsum Mining Company and taken over in 1937 by @NationalGypsum when it bought AGMC. National Gypsum continued to operate the Dingwall quarry until 1955.
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#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia
Dingwall produced about 10 million tons of gypsum in its 22 years of operation.
National Gypsum closed the #Dingwall quarry in 1955 because it was opening the world’s largest surface gypsum mine in #Milford, East Hants.
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National Gypsum closed the #Dingwall quarry in 1955 because it was opening the world’s largest surface gypsum mine in #Milford, East Hants.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #Capebreton
Reclaimed mines are often hidden in plain view! For example, this beautiful lake is the former #Cheticamp #gypsum quarry in Cape Breton. Here’s the history of this amazing site:
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@mikekelloway @AllanMacMaster @BAMacQuarrie
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@mikekelloway @AllanMacMaster @BAMacQuarrie
Father P. Fiset, parish priest in #Cheticamp, and his nephew Louis, a doctor, formed the Great Northern Mining Company about 1907. To raise funds, they sold shares for 5 cents each in Cheticamp. Shares were also sold in Quebec where the Fisets were well-known.
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#nspoli #cbpoli
In spring 1908 equipment for a mill was delivered to Government Wharf and hauled by horse and cart to Bell-Marche where the mill was built. The first #gypsum rock went through the mill on August 20, 1908.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #nshistory
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #nshistory
