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#OTD in 1848 gold was found at Sutter’s Mill, California. This spurred the California Gold Rush, as northern Free-Soilers and pro-slavery Southerners both flocked to the new territory acquired through the Mexican-American War. #OnThisDay #OnThisDate #TodayInHistory #GoldRush 
The battle over California’s fate as a free or slave state ignited intense debate in Congress, deepening the divide between the free North and the slave South. #California #Slavery #CaliforniaHistory
The prospect of a free California threatened to upset the even balance between free and slave states, something that southern slaveholders were unwilling to accept without certain concessions. The issue was temporarily resolved through the Compromise of 1850.
#NovaScotia’s geology was well-represented at the Paris Exhibition (World’s Fair) in 1867.
An impressive collection of #NS minerals and rocks was displayed, including coal, iron, manganese, building stone and gems to show off NS’s resources.
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An impressive collection of #NS minerals and rocks was displayed, including coal, iron, manganese, building stone and gems to show off NS’s resources.
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Gold nuggets and gold-bearing quartz from eleven different #gold districts were displayed.
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So was a pyramid with #gold gilt/plating to illustrate the quantity of gold that had been mined in the province between January 1861 and September 1866: 85,000 ounces (see left hand side of the picture below).
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Staking a claim to something means you have a right to it or it should belong to you. The expression comes from literally driving wooden stakes into the ground to mark a mineral claim: a specific area where someone has the right to explore and mine.
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The expression originated during the California #goldrush which started in 1848 and came to be used figuratively in the late 1800s.
Staking claims in Nova Scotia began in 1862 when @NSLeg passed “An Act relating to the #Gold Fields.”
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Staking claims in Nova Scotia began in 1862 when @NSLeg passed “An Act relating to the #Gold Fields.”
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The law was in response to the province’s first #goldrush which started in 1861 after the discovery of #gold in Mooseland. It gave the government authority to establish and regulate gold districts.
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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:
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#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.
