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Mining is part of #NovaScotia’s heritage and many communities benefit from tourism attractions related to historical mining. In fact, this 1889 flyer advertised #gold mines near #Caledonia, #QueensCounty, as tourist attractions to people from Boston!
#nspoli @RegionofQueens #NS
#nspoli @RegionofQueens #NS
It says, “Many tourists will find a profitable and interesting diversion in visiting the various gold mines within easy reach of their boarding places.”
#nspoli #novascotia #gold
#nspoli #novascotia #gold
It describes gold processing as “curious and interesting, and well repays an intelligent sight-seer for a few days of travel and observation.”
#nspoli #novascotia #gold
#nspoli #novascotia #gold
In #WWII, #coal was central to the war effort. It not only kept people warm but powered industry, railways and shipping. The war couldn’t be fought with it and it was essential to the #Canadian economy.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #cb #ns #nshistory #mining
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #cb #ns #nshistory #mining
Yet Nova Scotia #coal production declined from a wartime high of nearly 7.4 million tons in 1941 to 5.1 million tons in 1945.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #cb #ns #nshistory #mining
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #cb #ns #nshistory #mining
In the Dominion Coal Company mines, which accounted for close to 60% of the province’s coal production, output fell from 4.3 million tons in 1941 to less than 3 million tons in 1945.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #cb #ns #nshistory #mining
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia #capebreton #cb #ns #nshistory #mining
Mines in #CapeBreton towns like #Donkin, #GlaceBay and #SydneyMines all mined the same huge coalfield (named for #Sydney) which extends from #CapeMorien-#CapeDauphin and 300 kms offshore.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster @kendrachristin3
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster @kendrachristin3
98% of the #Sydney Coalfield is underwater – it extends almost to the south coast of #Newfoundland.
There have been about 100 mines in it and it has produced more #coal than all other #NovaScotia coalfields combined.
#nspoli #cbpoli @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster
There have been about 100 mines in it and it has produced more #coal than all other #NovaScotia coalfields combined.
#nspoli #cbpoli @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster
The Princess Colliery in #SydneyMines was the first to mine undersea #coal in the #Sydney Coalfield. Its main shaft was near the shore and the workings were entirely under the ocean.
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster @kendrachristin3
#nspoli #cbpoli #novascotia @GeoffMacLellan @HomeMattersCB @AllanMacMaster @kendrachristin3
We love getting questions about #mining, #minerals and #geology! In response to our post yesterday about how #NovaScotia’s #gold deposits formed, we were asked about “barrel quartz.” Here’s our answer:
#nspoli #NS #CB #capebreton #Waverley @waverleyns @SteveStreatch @Bill_Horne
#nspoli #NS #CB #capebreton #Waverley @waverleyns @SteveStreatch @Bill_Horne
Barrel quartz is a term used to describe the #gold deposit on #LaidlawHill in #Waverley in the 1800s. It isn’t a technical/geological term. The miners used it to describe what they saw: folded, gold-bearing quartz veins whose outcrops are corrugated and resemble barrels.
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The quartz veins that host the #gold are hard and surrounded by soft shale. When the rocks were compressed by forces resulting from tectonic plate collision, the quartz vein buckled to form barrel shapes but the surrounding shale reacted like toothpaste and absorbed the pressure.
