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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:#nspoli #cbpoli

#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

#NovaScotia had its first two gold rushes in the second half of the 1800s, in the same era that gold rushes happened in California (1848-1855) and the Yukon (1896-1899). But

#Mining built #NovaScotia!Construction on St. Bernard Church in #Digby County began in 1910 and took 32 years to complete because the parish was determined not to go into debt. It's

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

Anti-development group SUNNS is using controversial American activist Ann Maest to oppose #gold mining in #NovaScotia.Maest is best-known for recanting and disavowing her testimony in a $19 billion legal case:

In 1852, physician Victor Burq visited a copper smelter in Paris, where they used heat and chemicals to extract the reddish-brown metal. It was a dirty and dangerous job.Read this