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Aerial view of Moose River open pit gold mine showing deep pit with turquoise water in the bottom and gravel roads spiralling down into it, flat silvery surface of the tailings facility in the background as well as the massive waste rock storage pile with forested area and Moose River in the foreground. Photo by Raymond Plourde/ Ecology Action Centre
Posted inMining

Shake-up at Australian mining firm St Barbara will have big reverberations in Nova Scotia

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 12, 2022January 2, 2023

Just three and a half years since St Barbara Ltd bought Atlantic Gold for $722 million, the Australian company is now preparing to hand off all those Nova Scotia operations to a new junior mining company that will be called Phoenician Metals. The new junior will also own St Barbara’s Simberi mine in Papua New […]

Mr. Burns, the rich old man in The Simpsons. He's very yellow, has a receeding hairline, is wearing a green robe, and has a snifter of brandy in his hand
Posted inMorning File

Here’s what’s wrong with the seniors discount

A smiling white woman with long straight dark blonde hair and bangs, with half her face in dramatic shadowA smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet, Yvette d'Entremont and Jennifer Henderson October 19, 2022October 27, 2022
This aerial photo of Atlantic Gold's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the giant crater where the gold is mined, and the large tailings pond on the edge of Scraggy Lake. Photo is contributed.
Posted inCommentary

Nova Scotia Environment minister approved Signal Gold’s open pit mine at Goldboro despite concerns and criticisms from scientists in his own department

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter August 10, 2022November 6, 2022
A empty chamber with blue chairs, desks with microphones, and two paintings hanging next to a big chair
Posted inBusiness and Development, Economy, Government, Province House

Grants for seniors, gold mining, the premier’s ‘friends,’ and more from Question Period

A smiling white woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Jennifer Henderson July 29, 2022January 9, 2023
An advisory sign that warns about high levels of arsenic, in front of a body of water
Posted inMining

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 13, 2022November 22, 2022
A gold tailings site
Posted inProvince House

Public paying the price to clean up old gold mines

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 23, 2022November 22, 2022
A blue and white sign surrounded by trees on Highway 256, which reads "Now Entering French River Watershed, Supply area for the Tatamagouche Water Utility."
Posted inEnvironment

New protected status for Tatamagouche water supply means an end to mineral exploration, mining in the watershed

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter January 25, 2022November 22, 2022
Front page of an old newspaper. It says The Maritime Merchant and Commercial Review, Halifax. no. 5, Thursday, July 3, 1913. Above the title is a drawing of a fly and an ad for Tanglefoot, "the sanitary fly destroyer."
Posted inMorning File

Business and “grouchers” from 1892-1913

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch December 7, 2021January 25, 2023
Moose river gold mine tailings pond with Scraggy Lake in foreground (contributed)
Posted inMining

The Examiner quizzed the four main political parties on gold mining issues. Here are their responses.

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 30, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEconomy

Maritime Launch Services has hired a PR firm to conduct a “push poll” for its proposed spaceport in Canso

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 26, 2021November 22, 2022

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